Our planetary neighbor Venus is thought to have once had water, like Earth, but how it became the hellish world it is today has remained a mystery to scientists for decades. Now, however ...
Blue planets? Could Venus have had oceans like Earth in the distant past? (Courtesy: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/NASA/Apollo 17 ...
Scientists have identified a water-loss mechanism on Venus that could explain how the once water-rich world became completely parched. In the newly identified process, linked to a previously ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Eryn Cangi, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Today, the ...
For years, scientists puzzled over Venus's water loss and transformation into a desert-like world. Understanding why water escaped to the solar system remained elusive. However, recent ...
Venus and Earth really weren’t so different, once upon a time. Researchers believe that they might’ve formed from the same nebulosity around the same time. And that Venus once held about the ...
JAXA, the Japanese space agency, confirmed Wednesday that it has lost communication with its Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit ...
But when we look at Mars, it seems to have been habitable for a period of time and then lost its atmosphere and its surface water. Mars' situation must be more common than Earth's.
NASA’s spacecraft Magellan used cloud-penetrating radar to survey most of the planet. But back then, the relatively ...
The hushed voices of visitors to Avery Court at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford now have a new backdrop: the playful splashing of water. The fountain at the foot of the Italian ...
Colorado, Today, the atmosphere of our neighbour planet Venus is as hot as a pizza oven and drier than the driest desert on Earth – but it wasn’t always that way. Witness the final chapter of ...