Scientists generally think that an environment that could support life as we know it requires three key components. The first is some kind of energy source: typically, the heat an ...
When Venus formed billions of years ago, the planet probably had about as much water as Earth. Thick carbon dioxide clouds in ...
Gamma-ray bursts weren’t discovered until the 1960s.
Earth, Mars and Venus all looked pretty similar when they first formed. Today, Mars is dry, cold, and dusty; Venus has a hot, crushing atmosphere. Why did these sibling planets turn out so different?
This article on K2-18b was first published in September 2023 on The Conversation. The Times of London reported NASA’s James ...
Recent research finds claims of biosignature gas detection were premature. Recent reports of NASA’s James Webb Space ...
There's evidence that there was once an ocean's worth of water on Venus. So what happened to the water that once made Venus so Earth-like?
Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure, it’s believed that both planets ...
Scientists believe that Venus once looked a lot more like Earth. How it evolved from that point to where it is today is a ...