Venus, the second planet from our Sun, vividly demonstrates why the greenhouse effect makes life impossible. With an average surface temperature of roughly 1000º F (500º C) under a toxic ...

Earth’s terrifying Cryogenic Period nearly wiped out life 750 million years ago. With shared features across rocky planets, scientists explore whether Venus and Mars could someday become snowball ...

A team has modeled the early impact history of Venus to explain how Earth's sister planet has maintained a youthful surface despite lacking plate tectonics. The team compared the early collision ...

Venus is a difficult planet to study due largely to its ultra-dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide, which is almost 100 times more dense than Earth's. Still, recent studies of Venus have shown ...

Images came from NASA’s Planetary Data System and Astrophysics Data System. Note to editors: An abstract follows. “Venus tesserae feature layered, folded, and eroded rocks” DOI: 10.1130/G47940.1 ...

Venus is the world next door. An Earth-sized planet that couldn’t be less like Earth, it is a hellish world with acid clouds. Several missions are planning to go there over the next decade ...

In 2021, NASA committed to two new Venus missions, VERITAS and DAVINCI, while the European Space Agency is planning one called EnVision. “Interest in Venus is high right now,” Marchi said.