Venus has a rich and complicated atmosphere – the densest of all the rocky planets – which is the key to understanding the planet itself. Venus Express, designed to perform an extensive investigation ...

A furnace in Bedford, Pennsylvania, held a titanium test vessel at 869 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 465 degrees Celsius, for ...

Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor temporal changes in Venus’ cloud-top temperature, revealing unseen patterns in the ...

The VASI (Venus Atmospheric Structure Investigation) instrument aboard NASA's Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, or DAVINCI, mission to Venus, together with ...

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 ...

It sounds backwards at first. Mercury sits right next to the Sun, practically hugging it, while Venus orbits nearly twice as ...

How can scientists study the meteorology of Venus from Earth since there are currently no missions to Venus? This is what a recent study published in Earth, Planets and Space hopes to address as a ...

Have you ever found something unexpected in the background of a photo? Scientists looking at images of Earth taken by weather satellites found that Venus shows up in the background of some of the ...

Japan’s weather satellites have been quietly conducting a decade-long study of Venus—completely by accident. Scientists at the University of Tokyo discovered that the Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological ...