Venus is undoubtedly one of the weirdest planets in the solar system. Venus, the second planet from the sun and Earth's nearest planetary neighbor is an oddity in many ways. It is the sixth ...

Venus, the second planet from the Sun, has a thick, opaque atmosphere, preventing optical-based telescopes and orbiting space probes from observing its surface. This didn't prevent Earth's ...

Shrouded in mystery Since Venus is covered in clouds, astronomers had no idea what the planet looked like until about 30 years ago. In 1990 NASA’s unmanned Magellan spacecraft became the first ...

We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn't know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with ...