Our galaxy may be full of planets identical to Earth at formation that turned into uninhabitable hellscapes — and the one sitting next door to us has been so thoroughly ignored that a leading researcher called it criminally underexplored while we spent decades looking at Mars

Preliminary results from a study presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna earlier this month suggest that Venus-like planets, with dense carbon dioxide atmospheres and surface conditions lethal to any life we know, may be roughly twice as common in the galaxy as planets that form with liquid water oceans. The finding [...] The post Our galaxy may be full of planets identical to Earth at formation that turned into uninhabitable hellscapes — and the one sitting next d