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

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 ...

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 ...

The space organization shared a new photo that NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured of Venus while the probe was using the planet’s gravity to whip itself toward its final destination: The Sun.

Delve into the history of Venus exploration and take a closer look at the real images taken from the surface, along with the growing possibility that life could exist in the planet’s clouds ...

The first one was Venera 3, which crash-landed on Venus on March 1, 1966. This was the first time a spacecraft reached the surface of another planet. The subsequent three missions delivered ...

The first Venus selfie image, taken on Tuesday at 9:57 a.m. EDT (13:57 pm GMT) when BepiColombo was at a distance of 977 miles (1,573 km) from the surface of Venus, was captured with one of the ...

The surface of Venus is cracked and moves like ice floating on the ocean – likely due to tectonic activity. Here's what that tells us about the planet.

Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled with strange, circular landforms. These rounded mountain belts, known as coronae ...

The hellscape of Venus is creating some interesting effects in the planet’s upper atmosphere, a new study reports. Surface temperatures on this planet average close to 900 degrees Fahrenheit ...

And this lava’s mobility may be enhanced by the planet’s average surface temperature of about 470°C. Meanwhile, “shield” volcanoes on Venus are an impressive 700km wide at the base, but ...

Researchers used decades-old radar data and found that some low-lying areas of Venus' crust are moving and jostling. This evidence is some of the strongest yet of tectonic activity on Venus.