Only four spacecraft have ever sent back images from their surface before being destroyed. The Soviet Union’s Venera probes, launched in 1975 and 1982, took the only photos ever captured from Venus’ ...

In this video, we strip away the digital magic, the filters, and the CGI to reveal what Venus really looks like—in all its harsh, alien, and violently active detail. These images are not meant to ...

Based on what scientists have said about Venus, finding a world similar to it may not seem like a thrilling breakthrough in space research: Our neighboring planet's surface is a hot, toxic world ...

When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images of the surface of Venus, they discovered something new: evidence of volcanic activity on Earth's "twin." The NASA Magellan spacecraft ...

Venus, often called Earth’s “evil twin” planet, formed closer to the Sun and has since evolved quite differently from our own planet. It has a “runaway” greenhouse effect (meaning heat is completely ...

A NASA Engineer Spent Years Writing Fiction About Venus. Now He Wants to Send a Mission There For Real It could be the first surface visit to collect soil and rock samples ...

The planetary meet up between the two brightest planets in our solar system is known as the conjunction and takes place over ...