Scientists have identified a water-loss mechanism on Venus that could explain how the once water-rich world became completely parched. In the newly identified process, linked to a previously ...

Venus has long been called a dry, hellish planet veiled in clouds of liquid acid. But new study of old spacecraft data tells a different story—one that’s reshaping what scientists believed they knew ...

An artist’s impression of the hydrogen atoms, orange, escaping into space while leaving behind carbon monoxide molecules, blue and purple. Illustration: Aurore Simonnet/LASP/CU Boulder Around 4.5 ...

Our planetary neighbor Venus is thought to have once had water, like Earth, but how it became the hellish world it is today has remained a mystery to scientists for decades. Now, however, researchers ...

Venus today is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines with an electron, producing speedy H atoms (orange) that use CO molecules ...

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How did the planet Venus lose its water? This debate has rage on for some time and something a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of ...

Reanalysis of NASA's Pioneer Venus mission data reveals that Earth's twin contains 62% water in hydrated compounds.

The first things they noticed were massive spikes in water at 185𝇈C and 414𝇈C, which were indicative of hydrates such as hydrated ferric sulfate and hydrated magnesium sulfate. They also noticed ...

On the other hand, Jupiter might be more habitable than we think? It has long been thought that intense pressures and temperatures on Venus made life at the surface practically impossible. So last ...

(Nanowerk News) Planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth’s scalding and uninhabitable neighbor, became so dry. The new study fills in a big gap in ...