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Venus shines more brightly in Earth’s sky than any of our stars, but it gets surprisingly little attention nowadays (unless it’s being used as an example of a planetary What Not To Do). Venera 13 ...

The emergence of plate tectonics is arguably Earth’s defining moment, the authors of a new Nature paper write. Out of all the planets we’ve looked at carefully, Earth is the only one that has a hard ...

Banner image: Illustration of what Venus may have looked like billions of years ago with water, left, and what Venus looks like today, right. (Credits: NASA; NASA/JPL-Caltech) Planetary scientists at ...

A round-up of information about Venus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Venus is a hot and hellish world and the second planet ...