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.

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 ...

Venus as seen from the International Space Station in 2015. Image: NASA/JAXA It’s hot. It’s toxic. It spins backwards and is covered in volcanoes. And we’re headed there soon.

Our work focused on Venus, Earth, Mars, Titan, Triton (Neptune’s largest moon) and Pluto. Unresolved debates about these bodies have gone on for decades.

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 ...

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 ...

By any measure, Venus is a hellscape: crushing pressures, a toxic atmosphere, and surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. It's like a scene lifted straight from Dante's Inferno.