With each morning, Venus has been rising ever higher and has been getting a little brighter. The planet will reach its brightest in the morning sky on Sept. 19.

Prior to 2004, the last pair of Venus transits took place in 1881 and 1889. Get the Space.com Newsletter Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!

Venus's atmosphere is comprised of 96.5 percent carbon dioxide and 3.5 percent nitrogen, along with trace amounts of other gases like oxygen and sulfur dioxide.

In recent decades, space agencies have mostly been focused on visiting Mars -- but now their sights are shifting to Earth's other planetary neighbor: Venus. Skip to main content.

The decade of Venus is almost upon us. With three upcoming Venus missions planned from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), we’re on the cusp of learning more about our neighboring planet ...

Command Control. For months, the world watched Mariner II. Careful measurements showed that it would pass about 21,000 miles from the planet; but space, with its sucking vacuum, fierce radiation ...

Observations of Venus taken with the BepiColombo space probe show that our cosmic neighbor is leaking significant amounts of carbon and oxygen from its atmosphere, and researchers can't totally ...

NASA image of Venus taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft (main) and stock image of the ocean (inset). Venus may never have had liquid water, researchers have found.

Dive into the cosmic dance between the moon and Venus conjunction, unraveling the realms of astronomy, astrology, and the connection between humans and the cosmos.

Space Photos of the Week: Venus Is the Spacecraft-Killer. One of NASA's proposed missions would send a spacecraft to Venus on a suicide mission in order to study its atmosphere.

Astronauts released it into space where it rocketed away from Earth and took a roundabout 15-month journey to Venus. From 1990-1994, Magellan used radar to peer beneath the thick clouds and map ...

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