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This image shows a 684-mile-wide (1,100 kilometers) false-color radar view of a lowland region on Venus called Lavinia Planitia. The colors show where Venus' crust, or lithosphere, is divided into structures a bit like Earth's tectonic plates. The purple regions are the blocks, and their divisions are colored in yellow.

Venus has a gooey flowing mantle jostling crust chunks on its surface

By Doris Elin Salazar published

Venus may still be geologically active today, which could mean that Earth's planetary sibling is a good place for scientists to learn about early Earth and faraway worlds.

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mars dust storm

7 solar system worlds where the weather is crazy

By Jonathan O'Callaghan, Daisy Dobrijevic, How It Works magazine published

What's the weather like on other worlds? Expect methane rain, global haboobs and a 10,000-mile-wide hurricane.

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An artist's illustration of the evolution of the interstellar object 'Oumuamua, whose weird, elongated shape may have come from tidal forces.

Here's what we learned about aliens in 2020

By Brandon Specktor published

From the best places to find them to what they might breathe, here are the newest clues we discovered about alien life.

Extraterrestrial Life
CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, also called The Dish, located in Australia.

Extraterrestrial evidence: 10 incredible findings about aliens from 2020

By Adam Mann published

Are we alone in the universe? Many discoveries about aliens in 2020 seemed to increase the prospect of extraterrestrial entities existing.

Extraterrestrial Life
There seems to be a network of underground bodies of liquid water at Mars’ south pole.

Mars: Mounting evidence for subglacial lakes, but could they really host life?

By David Rothery published

The best place for life on Mars might be more than a kilometre below its surface!

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A NASA illustration shows the Pioneer 13 probes descending toward the clouds of Venus.

Did NASA detect a hint of life on Venus in 1978 and not realize it?

By Rafi Letzter published

What if scientists had started hunting for life on Venus in 1978?

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simulation of the surface of Venus, with the Northern Hemisphere displayed

'Grand claims' of life on Venus lack evidence, skeptics say

By Adam Mann published

A roundup of the various pushback and criticisms to the claim that there could be life on Venus

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sits in the Marias Pass area of lower Mount Sharp.

The four most promising worlds for alien life in the solar system

By Gareth Dorrian published

Venus just became a serious contender. But what are the other most promising locations for extra-terrestrial life?

Extraterrestrial Life
An artist's concept showing a super-Venus on the left and Earth on the right.

Venus, once billed as Earth's twin, is a hothouse (and a tantalizing target in the search for life)

By Nola Taylor Redd published

As Earth's twin, Venus offers much in the search for life and habitable worlds.

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NASA snapped this image of Venus using its Mariner 10 probe during a flyby in 1974.

Possible hint of life discovered on Venus

By Rafi Letzter published

Phosphine, a chemical long thought to be a signature of life, is floating around in the clouds of Venus. How did it get there?

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