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

Instead, the only photos of Venus’ surface we have to look at were captured by Soviet-era spacecraft over 40 years ago. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, residing right between Earth and ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe peered through Venus’ cloud cover to take the first visible-light images (one shown) of the planet’s surface captured from space. The large dark splotch in the ...