Venus has always been a mysterious planet, largely due to its extreme conditions. It’s a world where temperatures are high enough to melt lead, and its thick, toxic clouds have long been thought to be ...

In new research published in Science, a team of astronomers report the detection of a surprising substance in a brown dwarf ...

The air on Venus is about 96.5% carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas. All that CO2 leads to a runaway greenhouse effect ...

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis ...

The root of this prey-catching technique is a chemical ion channel named DmMSL10 that surrounds the base of a Venus fly ...

As previously reported, the Venus flytrap attracts its prey with a pleasing fruity scent. When an insect lands on a leaf, it ...

Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...