New evidence hints that Venus may be volcanically active, which has long been a controversial topic among scientists. Six years of observations by the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft ...

Venus is in the spotlight Tuesday (June 5) as it makes a rare pass across the face of the sun. The transit of Venus occurs in pairs more than a century apart. The last Venus transit happened in 2004, ...

Venus is packed with surprises and is one of the most fascinating planets in our solar system. Because of the similar size and structure, it is often referred to as Earth's twin. But, in reality, it ...

Impact features on Venus may have been staring us in the face all along That's the message from a team of planetary scientists, who have explained Venus' apparent dearth of large craters by ...

Venus was the goddess of beauty in ancient Rome and her brightly shining planetary namesake lives up to that hype. When Venus is in the evening sky, you notice her. When she is in the predawn sky, you ...

Venus may have once possessed strange oceans of carbon dioxide fluid that helped shape the planet's surface, researchers say. Venus is often described as Earth's twin planet because it is the world ...

Venus, the second planet from the sun, is an oddity in many ways. With this week's ultra-rare transit of Venus, in which the planet will pass in front of the sun as seen from Earth on Tuesday (June 5) ...