If not for the soupy, fast-moving atmosphere on Venus, Earth’s sister planet would likely not rotate. Instead, Venus would be locked in place, always facing the sun the way the same side of the moon ...

Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus’s atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself. An international research team led by Takeshi Horinouchi of Hokkaido University ...

"The features we found on Venus are strikingly similar to Earth's early continents." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New research ...

Venus, with its fiery surface and rapid atmospheric rotation, has always been a subject of fascination for scientists. Recent discoveries reveal that its extreme winds might be even more dramatic and ...

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 ...

Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing volcanoes, and puffy clouds of sulfuric acid, uninhabitable Venus offers vital lessons about the potential for life on other planets, ...

The Science of Siblings is a series exploring the ways our siblings can influence us, from our money and our mental health all the way down to our very molecules. We'll be sharing these stories over ...

Astronomers are full of facts about far-distant stars, but they know almost nothing about Venus, the earth’s nearest (26 million miles) planetary neighbor. Its size, density and period of rotation are ...

When you gaze at the morning sky, you expect a planet’s day to be shorter than its year. But on Venus, that rule flips on its head in a way that makes you reconsider how time really flows in the solar ...