In 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander survived on Venus for just over two hours and captured 14 surface images before the ...

On a flyby of Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the first visible light images of the cloudy planet’s surface from space, a new study reports. The nightside view of the extremely hot surface ...

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Venus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius. The climate at the surface is oppressive; as well as being hot, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clouds partially obscure the sun during the transit of Venus June 5, 2012 as seen from Riverside Park on the west side of ...

Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled with strange, circular landforms. These rounded mountain belts, known as coronae, have no ...

Bizarre Venus surface formations (or coronae) are likely key to understanding our twin planet's heretofore inscrutable interior. Using NASA Magellan spacecraft data from decades past, Anna Gulcher, an ...

Between 1961 and 1984, the Soviet Union launched 18 probes to Venus as part of the Venera and Vega space programs. Of these, 10 probes would successfully land on the surface of the hottest planet in ...

What new insights about lava tubes on Venus can scientists gain about the planet’s formation, evolution, and present volcanic activity? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications ...