Conditions on Venus's surface have largely remained a mystery for decades. Carl Sagan famously pointed out that people were ...

Venus, often referred to as Earth’s twin due to its size and composition, hides a dangerous and mysterious atmosphere that ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Features on Venus seen by NASA's Magellan mission include, clockwise from top left, Artemis ...

The surface of Venus is shrouded in layers of cloud, but on a recent flyby, NASA's Parker Solar Probe actually spotted the surface glowing through those clouds. In 1975, the Soviet Venera 9 and 10 ...

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 ...

A trio of papers provide new insight into the composition and evolution of the surface of Venus, hidden beneath its caustic, high temperature atmosphere. Utilizing imaging from orbit using multiple ...

A team of scientists at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland recently completed a technology demonstration that could enable new scientific missions to the surface of Venus. The team demonstrated ...

The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds. When ...

In the early years of astronomy, Venus was often referred to as Earth’s sister planet. But when NASA’s Mariner 2 probe made the first flyby of the planet in 1962, scientists realized that Venus is ...