Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...

It’s especially puzzling since Venus is a terrestrial world much like Earth, so much so that it’s considered to be our planet ...

Somewhere in the orbit of Venus, scientists believe a hidden population of asteroids is circling the Sun—nearly invisible to Earth-bound telescopes and possibly capable of striking our planet with ...

The probe has made detailed measurements of Venus's cloudy atmosphere. Could it find life? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

A sequence of images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10, 2021. Gif: ...

Last month, the science world was stunned and excited when Nature Astronomy published a paper indicating that the atmosphere of Venus appeared to contain trace amounts of phosphine, a gas associated ...

Venus may be closer to the sun than Earth, but its typically hellish atmosphere has a surprisingly cold layer that's chillier than any part of our own planet's atmosphere, a new study reveals. This ...