Despite being a hellish world, the hot, cloud-enveloped world Venus is a tantalizing target for scientists eager to learn more about its history, evolution and present state. At the forefront of ...

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Recent lava flows spotted on Venus suggest the planet could be much more geologically active than first thought, possibly as active as Earth. The geological processes producing these flows, first ...

NASA has proposed a concept known as HAVOC, which involves building floating habitats in Venus’s upper atmosphere. At an altitude of around 50 kilometers, pressure and gravity are surprisingly similar ...

Japan ends the Akatsuki mission after more than a decade studying Venusian weather, revealing super-rotation, giant gravity ...

Humanity's only mission in Venus is in limbo after a Japanese spacecraft went dark last month, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency confirmed. The JAXA space agency said it lost communication with ...

A strange, gargantuan wall of acid-filled clouds on our neighboring planet Venus has been spotted by a hobbyist astronomer. This structure, known as the Venus Cloud Discontinuity, is around 5,000 ...

"In about two weeks from now, on or near May 9-10, an unusual uncontrolled reentry will happen." In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Venus and Mars, planet Earth's two closest neighbors, have been inching ever closer to each other during the month of July. Monday night, they promise to put on a show, appearing at ...

Earth’s lone connection to Venus is over. After losing contact a year ago, The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has officially declared the Akatsuki spacecraft dead, ceasing operations ...