The air on Venus is about 96.5% carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas. All that CO2 leads to a runaway greenhouse effect ...

It’s especially puzzling since Venus is a terrestrial world much like Earth, so much so that it’s considered to be our planet ...

Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...

Forty-three years ago, in March 1982, humanity received its last direct visual postcard from the surface of Venus.

Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth's inhospitable neighbor, a tantalizing sign of ...

The Venus Orbiter will carry sophisticated instruments, each designed for specific tasks such as the S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar. This advanced radar system will create detailed maps of Venus's ...

A new discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope has given scientists fresh insight into Venus and its potential to host life ...

In new research published today in Science, a team of astronomers report the detection of a surprising substance in a brown ...

New research presented at the Europlanet Science Congress 2025 in Helsinki suggests that Venus may be concealing some of the ...

Venus, our planetary neighbor, displays strange geological formations on its surface in the shape of coronae that have ...

Believe it or not, many astronomers would describe the planet Venus as Earth's “evil twin.” After all, it is the same size, ...

In new research published in Science, a team of astronomers report the detection of a surprising substance in a brown dwarf known as Wolf 1130C: a chemical called phosphine, which has been the focus ...