Hellish Venus-Like Planets May Be More Prevalent Than True ExoEarths

Processed using ultraviolet (365nm & 283nm) filtered images of Venus taken by Akatsuki on December 23 2016. JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin M. Gill via Wikipedia

Exoplanet hunters are keen to find the next extrasolar earthlike planet, one that may harbor life as we know it. But preliminary results from a new study indicate that our galaxy may be filled with a plethora of exo-Venuses. Yet as one exoplanetary researcher notes: the template for such exo-worlds — our own Venus — has been ‘criminally underexplored.’

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