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Venus's reputation as a cautionary tale of an Earth Gone Bad may have been somewhat exaggerated. We've thought that, before it became the toxic hellscape we know today, Venus could have once been habitable, with oceans of liquid water shimmering on its surface. New research reveals that Earth's so-called sister planet may never have had liquid ...
1 day ago · The new study highlights two climate paths Venus could have gone down before it became the hot, dry planet it is today. In both scenarios, Venus began life as a magma ocean, with no solid crust.
8 hours ago · A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbour was once much more like Earth than it is today. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, studied the chemical composition of the Venusian atmosphere and inferred that its interior is too dry today for there ever to have been enough water for oceans ...
1 day ago · From a distance, Venus and Earth look like siblings: it is almost identical in size and is a rocky planet like Earth. But up close, Venus is more like an evil twin: it is covered with thick clouds ...
1 day ago · An illustration of Earth next to its evil twin Venus (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASA) There are two primary concepts of how Venus could have evolved over the last 4.6 billion ...
Oct 27, 2023 · Scientists have long tried to understand why Venus’ crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere is 90 times as thick as Earth’s. Additionally, there is almost no water vapor, and temperatures hover...
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Aug 6, 2024 · Earth and its "evil twin" Venus are very different today, with the latter lacking plate tectonics. New research indicates Venus may have been much more like our planet than we suspected.
