Scientists may have identified a molecule that played a key role in robbing Venus of its water and turned this planet into ...

"We would have loved to find that Venus was once a planet much closer to our own, so it’s kind of sad in a way to find out that it wasn’t." Scientists have poured cold water on the idea that ...

Astronomers have long debated whether Venus, which is extremely hot and inhospitable to life today, once had liquid-water oceans on its surface. A new study found very little water in the planet's ...

"But given it likely never had oceans, it is hard to imagine Venus ever having supported Earth-like life, which requires liquid water." When searching for life elsewhere in our galaxy, astronomers ...

Yet the planet has been long theorized to have been habitable many millions of years ago, with oceans of liquid water. According to the researchers, however, Venus's atmosphere is simply too dry ...

But now the planet is bone dry - it's atmosphere contains as much as 100,000 times less water than Earth's. Scientists have found evidence that electric winds may have stripped Venus of all of its ...