Venus is in the spotlight Tuesday (June 5) as it makes a rare pass across the face of the sun. The transit of Venus occurs in pairs more than a century apart. The last Venus transit happened in 2004, ...

When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images of the surface of Venus, they discovered something new: evidence of volcanic activity on Earth's "twin." The NASA Magellan spacecraft ...

Venus was the goddess of beauty in ancient Rome and her brightly shining planetary namesake lives up to that hype. When Venus is in the evening sky, you notice her. When she is in the predawn sky, you ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Much of the brittle, upper crust of Venus is broken into fragments that jostle and move – and the ...

Data obtained by bouncing radio waves off Venus — treating it, as one scientist said, like a giant disco ball — is providing new insight into Earth's closest planetary neighbor, including a precise ...

Walking around Venus would be an unbearable experience for several reasons, but one of them is the extreme pressures on the surface. The atmosphere creates air pressure that is over 90 times the air ...

A day on Venus is the equivalent in time as 243 Earth days. A year, on the other hand, equates to 225 days on Earth. “That means that a day on Venus is a little longer than a year on Venus,” wrote ...

Based on what scientists have said about Venus, finding a world similar to it may not seem like a thrilling breakthrough in space research: Our neighboring planet's surface is a hot, toxic world, with ...