Venus has long been thought of as a 'dead' planet, but new missions to Earth's 'evil twin' could soon reveal whether it is very much alive and still geologically active. Not only that, but one of the ...

A composite image of the planet Venus as seen by the Japanese probe Akatsuki. Image from the Akatsuki Orbiter, built by Institute of Space and Astronautical Science/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS McDONALD OBSERVATORY, AS HEARD ON KCBS RADIO WEEKDAYS @ 9:52 A.M., 7:35 P.M. & 2:52 A.M. STARDATE 7/23/2014: There's nothing like a trip to the mountains to escape the ...

Rendering of two stingray-like BREEZE spacecraft exploring the atmosphere of Venus. The spacecraft would circumnavigate Venus every four to six days, with solar panels charging every two to three days ...

In 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe mission to study the sun. To get close enough to the celestial body to study it in detail, the spacecraft has to perform a series of swing-bys of Venus, ...

Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor is about to show off, undergoing an intriguing transition that will be easy and fun to follow for novice sky gazers between now and early January. This month, Venus ...

Your astrologer (you know … if you have an astrologer) may be able to better delve into what this may mean, but just for the purpose of what we can say with certainty, here’s what’s going down. A ...

Venus may be a sweltering wasteland today, but scientists have questioned whether the planet was always so inhospitable. While previous studies suggested Venus might have once been covered in oceans, ...

The heat in the atmosphere of Venus, induced from a strong greenhouse warming, might actually have a cooling effect on the planet's interior. This counter-intuitive theory is based on calculations ...

Venus may be a sweltering wasteland today, but scientists have questioned whether the planet was always so inhospitable. While previous studies suggested Venus might have once been covered in oceans, ...