Venus has long been dismissed as a hellish world — crushing pressure, sulfuric acid clouds, and temperatures hot enough to ...

Venus is the second planet from the Sun and our nearest neighbor. At its closest approach, Venus is mere 40 million km (25 million mi) away from us. After just four months in space, you’d finally be ...

What new insights about lava tubes on Venus can scientists gain about the planet’s formation, evolution, and present volcanic ...

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, was recently discovered lurking beneath Venus.

They could be absolutely enormous. The post Scientists Intrigued by Possible Hollow Structures Under Surface of Venus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venus’s clouds are rich in water and iron, challenging old models of its harsh, acidic atmosphere. (CREDIT: JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin ...

On Mars or the Moon, researchers use high-resolution optical cameras to spot “skylights,” which are essentially holes in the ...

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 ...

The story of the inner early Solar System goes something like this: Billions of years ago, there were three rocky worlds with oceans of liquid water. Perhaps all three could have been primed for life.

The mission will also study atmospheric processes such as super-rotation and the presence of trace gases, phenomena that are ...