Venus is getting some long-overdue love. On Wednesday (June 2), NASA announced that it will launch two missions to Earth's hellishly hot sister planet by 2030 — an orbiter called VERITAS and an ...

On a flyby of Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the first visible light images of the cloudy planet’s surface from space, a new study reports.

Wake up early to witness the year's most dazzling planetary pairing as Venus and Jupiter close in for a celestial rendezvous.

Half a dozen planets - Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - will put on a dazzling display in the sky on ...

The cloud cloaked surface of our sister planet Venus is normally only visible via sophisticated radar and/or infrared imaging from orbit. But on two recent flybys, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe used ...

As missions like the James Webb Space Telescope discover and investigate new planets outside our solar system, we’ll need a reference point for rocky planets like Earth, Mars, and Venus.

Venus is similar in size and distance from the sun when compared with Earth, and some researchers believe the planet might have even had an Earth-like climate at some point.

The roughly seven-hour event will begin at around 6:03 p.m. EDT (3:03 p.m. PDT; 2203 GMT), as Venus begins crossing the face of the sun. The planet will appear as a tiny black blemish as it moves ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft is performing a long series of flybys of various planets to bring it closer and closer to the sun on each pass. It will eventually come ...

Venus is often referred to as Earth's "evil twin" because, despite it being a virtual hellscape today, it is believed that our neighbor was much more like our planet in its ancient past.

2013 Nov. 6: Venus and the crescent moon make for an eye-catching sight in the west-southwest sky right after sunset. Venus shonewell below and to the left of the slender sunlit sliver (13 percent ...