Planets on the inner edge of extrasolar habitable zones could be habitable for a couple of billion years longer than ...

NASA's recent findings reveal desert-like planets, popularized in sci-fi like Dune, are unlikely to support life, even within ...

Many rocky worlds orbiting other stars share characteristics with our sister planet, particularly those near their star’s inner habitable zone. If Venus’s history is typical of such planets ...

"Even though it’s the closest planet to us, Venus is important for exoplanet science because it gives us a unique opportunity to explore a planet that evolved very differently to ours, right at the ...

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...

This is known as the "habitable zone" and is an area where surface temperatures allow liquid water. It now seems that Venus has always been outside the habitable zone. It seems that a planet's ...

Water is considered an indispensable ingredient for life, so the study’s conclusions suggest Venus was never habitable. The findings offer no support for a previous hypothesis that Venus may have a ...

such as Earth-like exoplanets in the habitable zone. New research supports "born hot" theory, ruling out Venus There are two primary theories about Venus’s past and how it may have evolved.

Venus is a counterpoint to anyone searching for an Earth-like planet in the cosmos. After all, if you define a “habitable zone” around the sun—orbits when water neither boils nor freezes ...