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NASA Sci-fi fans would be undoubtedly unnerved by the idea of giant tunnels under the surface of planets. So it’s no wonder ...

A strange, gargantuan wall of acid-filled clouds on our neighboring planet Venus has been spotted by a hobbyist astronomer. This structure, known as the Venus Cloud Discontinuity, is around 5,000 ...

Venus has been stealing the twilight show, glowing so fiercely that it can look like a misplaced aircraft or a distant beacon ...

A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbor was once much more like Earth than it is today. A team of ...

Thanks to ESA’s Venus Express data, scientists obtained the first large-area temperature maps of the southern hemisphere of the inhospitable, lead-melting surface of Venus. The new data may help with ...

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 ...

The geology and surface processes of Venus continue to intrigue planetary scientists, revealing a dynamic world shaped by volcanic activity, tectonic forces and chemical weathering. Recent ...

On Dec. 24, 1978, Venera 11 landed on Venus. Venera 11 was a robotic mission launched by the Soviet Union to explore Venus ...

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 atmosphere ...

We often tend to think of Mars when talking about Earth's twin, probably because of the way the Red Planet has been glorified on paper, on screens, and in the dreams of space adventurers. But that’s a ...