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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

Venus Express observations clearly show that the cells are much smaller, about 20-30 km. At this size, the cells are probably confined to the mid-atmosphere, leaving a stable atmospheric layer below.

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

While Venus is made up of about 96% carbon dioxide, scientists just discovered there's atomic oxygen in the planet’s atmosphere. According to findings from a joint project between NASA and the ...

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.

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 ...

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.