The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after engineers spent ...

Five global space agencies are preparing landmark missions to explore Venus—Earth's fiery twin—unlocking secrets about its ...

Mysterious features on the surface of Venus might suggest that there is activity under its surface, scientists have suggested. Almost circular features on the surface might suggest that it has active ...

Researchers have recently focused on intriguing geological formations on Venus, including peculiar structures on its surface ...

A trio of papers provide new insight into the composition and evolution of the surface of Venus, hidden beneath its caustic, high temperature atmosphere. Utilizing imaging from orbit using multiple ...

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Despite decades spent exploring our solar system, there's still a lot that humanity hasn't accomplished, and still a lot that we haven't properly explored. Chief among those things that still need ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. November 2: Neptune nestles between Saturn and the Moon Let's catch up with Venus in the morning sky; Earth's sister planet ...

The partial disk of the northern hemisphere of Venus, as revealed by radar data from the Magellan orbiter. In the 1990s, Magellan saw patches of rugged terrain called tessera. A future lander could ...

The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth’s and roasted by temperatures two times hotter than an oven. But ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A NASA spacecraft has captured stunning new images of the surface of Venus from space. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took its first visible-light images of the planet. Smothered in ...

Surface features seen in the WISPR images (left) match ones seen in those from the Magellan mission (right). The cloud cloaked surface of our sister planet Venus is normally only visible via ...