Venus and Earth seem like twins who, through dramatically different circumstances and choices, ended up leading dramatically different lives. Earth is bountiful and welcoming, with a soft, safe ...

The hellscape of Venus is riddled with even more volcanoes than scientists thought. Using radar images taken by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s, researchers cataloged about 85,000 volcanoes ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

On the left, a new and more detailed view of Venus’ Alpha Regio region developed by scientists on NASA's DAVINCI mission to Venus, due to launch in the early 2030s. On the right is a less detailed map ...

Astronomers are investigating a little-known and largely unseen group of asteroids that quietly orbit the sun alongside Venus — and there may be many more of them than we thought. "It's like ...

Astronomers are making a surprising breakthrough in the study of Venus, as new simulations suggest there may be a hidden family of asteroids quietly orbiting the Sun alongside the planet. This ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are ...

FILE - A tiny dot of the planet Venus is seen on the northwest side of the Sun's disc as viewed in Manila, Philippines, on a rare astronomical occasion in this June 8, 2004 file photo. On June 5, 2012 ...

Mariner 10, a NASA spacecraft, shows Venus wrapped in turbulent clouds, whirling at 200 mph in this image taken in February 1974. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Long ago Venus was nicknamed Earth's twin, ...