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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.
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?
See Venus swing by the crescent moon Monday morning
By Joe Rao published
The moon and Venus will form a triangle with the Beehive star cluster in the predawn sky on Monday (Sept. 14).
See the bright 'evening star' Venus swing by the crescent moon tonight
By Hanneke Weitering published
After a close encounter with the moon on Sunday (April 26), Venus will be at its greatest brightness of the year on Tuesday (April 28).
This Newly Discovered Asteroid Is the Second-Closest Natural Object to the Sun
By Laura Geggel published
Excluding Mercury, this newly discovered asteroid has the smallest known aphelion distance in our entire solar system.
Did Venus, Earth's 'Twisted Sister' Hellscape Planet, Once Harbor Water — and Life?
By Mindy Weisberger published
Venus, our solar system's broiling, radiation-bombarded, sulfuric-acid-raining, toxic hellscape of a planet, may once have been quite nice, actually.
How This Huge, Superfast Asteroid Stayed Hidden in Near-Earth Orbit
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
The year goes by quickly for this newfound asteroid.
Back to the Stone Age: 17 key milestones in Paleolithic life
By Tom Metcalfe published
The Stone Age may not have been "The Flintstones," but there were definitely caveman qualities to it.
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