Venus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius. The climate at the surface is oppressive; as well as being hot, the ...

Imagine the catastrophic winds of a Category 5 hurricane. Now, imagine even faster winds of more than 100 meters per second, ...

On a flyby of Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the first visible light images of the cloudy planet’s surface from space, a new study reports. The nightside view of the extremely hot surface ...

Radar images of the surface of Venus appear to show fresh lava flows, suggesting active volcanoes on the planet. Scientists from Italy's International Research School of Planetary Sciences wrote in an ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes called Earth's twin based on their similar size and ...

NASA warns Venus is becoming more dangerous for spacecraft. Rapid atmospheric changes and solar activity threaten future ...

A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbor was once much more like Earth than it is today. A team of ...

Five global space agencies are preparing landmark missions to explore Venus—Earth's fiery twin—unlocking secrets about its atmosphere, surface, and volcanic past.

Venus once had oceans made of carbon dioxide, researchers say. According to a study, unlike Earth’s water-filled oceans Venus consisted of a liquid-like form of co2 that may have helped shape the ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...