In an unexpected discovery, two weather satellites designed to monitor Earth’s atmosphere have ended up capturing valuable ...

Venus, the second planet from the Sun, has long fascinated scientists and storytellers alike. Once imagined as a lush, ...

Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting ...

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 this image, Venus is just beginning its journey across the face of the sun. Its atmosphere is visible as a thin, glowing border on the upper left of the planet. Two of NASA’s heliophysics ...

Earth's planetary neighbor Venus offers quite a different story. Its thick and noxious atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide - 96.5% - with lesser amounts of nitrogen and trace gases.

Venus, as a planet, is remarkable in more ways than one. It comes with a diameter that's just five percent smaller than our own blue marble, it has a similar mass and density, its core is made ...

Citations C.H. Blaske et al. Meteors may masquerade as lightning in the atmosphere of Venus. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. Vol. 128, September 2023. doi: 10.1029/2023JE007914.

Scientists have observed something unexpected in Venus' atmosphere — an increase in the level of deuterium relative to hydrogen. Okay, sure, that doesn't sound like the most exciting statement ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction to most planets. A Venusi ...

Scientists have spotted two gases in Venus's atmosphere that may be the fingerprints of life on our hostile neighbor. Phosphine gas and ammonia gas have been detected in the planet's thick, hot ...

Mysterious flashes of light on Venus aren't what scientists thought, according to a new study. And it could mean safer missions to the planet in the future. By Sonam Sheth and Jenny McGrath ...