Venus, which has been called "Earth's evil twin," has an extremely harsh climate, with a surface temperature of 864 degrees Fahrenheit. It's likely too hot to support life, but NASA has recently ...

Venus is a planet so similar to Earth in size and composition. It has often been referred to as Earth’s sister planet. It has also often been the subject of conjecture.

Studying Venus could give scientists insights of what a world looks like when there are no carbon sinks left. But it also happens to be the closest 'Earth-like' planet that researchers know of.

No longer confined to territories here on Earth, Russia has now staked its claim on Venus, saying it is a “Russian planet.” This week, Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space corporation ...

Venus, the second planet from our Sun, vividly demonstrates why the greenhouse effect makes life impossible. With an average surface temperature of roughly 1000º F (500º C) under a toxic ...

Seen next to Mars — a bright planet in its own right — as it appeared during conjunction on July 12, 2021, Venus appeared about 200 times brighter than Mars, or almost six full astronomical ...

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 ...

The squishy outer shell of Venus may be resurfacing the planet, according to researchers. Using three-decade-old data from NASA's Magellan mission, agency scientists examined how Venus cools ...

On Saturday and Sunday, the Earth will have an inferior conjunction (closest approach) with Venus, the sixth-largest planet in our solar system and the second-closest to the sun.

A strange, gargantuan wall of acid-filled clouds on our neighboring planet Venus has been spotted by a hobbyist astronomer. This structure, known as the Venus Cloud Discontinuity, is around 5,000 ...

There is indirect supporting evidence: Volcanic gases linger in Venus’s skies, and the way that parts of the planet glow suggests they were painted over by lava in the recent geologic past ...