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 ...

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

Venus has long been cast as the solar system’s hellscape, a world of crushing pressure and searing heat where spacecraft survive for minutes, not days. Now a new line of research suggests that beneath ...

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.

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.

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

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If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.