Although it's possible Mars once supported life, Earth is the only planet in the solar system currently known to do so. However, a new study notes that Venus may have been habitable for a few billion ...

Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet’s ancient climate by ...

(CNN) — Venus likely maintained stable temperatures and hosted liquid water for billions of years before an event triggered drastic changes in the planet, according to a new study. Now, Venus is a ...

ESA’s Venus Express is helping planetary scientists investigate whether Venus once had oceans. If it did, it may even have begun its existence as a habitable planet similar to Earth. These days, Earth ...

Venus's reputation as a cautionary tale of an Earth Gone Bad may have been somewhat exaggerated. We've thought that, before it became the toxic hellscape we know today, Venus could have once been ...

Venus was once a planet not too dissimilar to Earth, and if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the sun, it might have been able to support life, according to researchers. As a result of Jupiter - ...

A recent NASA Study says millennia of volcanic activity may have helped turned Venus from a habitable world into an “acidic hot house.” NASA/JPL image Venus is among the biggest mysteries in the solar ...

Although Venus ranks low on the list of planets with surface conditions that could be habitable, scientists have been debating whether or not life could survive in the clouds of this scorching hot ...

A spectacular recent find points towards life on another planet in our solar system. NASA scientists presented a study that Venus could have been a habitable planet two or three billion years ago with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. If not for a geological fluke of nature, would Venus still ...

Venus was once a planet not too dissimilar to Earth, and if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the sun, it might have been able to support life, according to researchers. As a result of Jupiter — ...