Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

Life on Earth may not have started here at all. A scientist says alien intervention is unlikely but still possible, reshaping the debate on our true origins.

NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a ...

Venus has long been known as Earth’s evil twin. While they both are roughly the same size and formed in the same inner region of the solar system, Venus is far less hospitable to life as we know it.

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, has been discovered Venus.

For decades, when people have imagined alien life, their minds have drifted to Mars or distant exoplanets far beyond our solar system. Venus rarely gets a mention, mostly because it seems completely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The case that Venus is harboring enormous lava tubes continues to build. A recent paper suggests they could measure up to 0.62 ...

According to a study by researchers at the University of Trento, radar data point to what looks like an enormous lava tube in the Nyx Mons region of Venus. The study, recently published in a ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering ...