For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an ...

This radar image captured by the Magellan probe shows a region on Venus' surface approximately 180 miles (300 kilometers) across, and located in a vast plain to the south of Aphrodite Terra.

The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from ...

Venus, the second planet from the Sun, has a thick, opaque atmosphere, preventing optical-based telescopes and orbiting space ...

Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled with strange, circular landforms. These rounded mountain belts, known as coronae ...

Still, Sousa-Silva says this confirmation of activity on Venus's surface does help us better understand what to expect in Venus' atmosphere. "A planet that has a lot of volcanic activity," she ...

Currently, Venus has a scorching hot surface temperature of around 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit (500 degrees Celsius), hot enough to melt lead. If that weren't intimidating enough, the second planet ...

The planet is known for its hot surface. Another processed image of the planet Venus taken by the Magellan probe that orbited the planet from 1990 to 1994. SSV/MIPL/Magellan Team/NASA ...

The data was gathered by the Magellan mission, which remains the best data on the gravity and topography of Venus despite having orbited the planet in the 1990s.

New research indicates Venus may have been much more like our planet than we suspected. ... In 1990, NASA's Magellan mission became the first spacecraft to image the entire surface of Venus.

From a distance, Venus and Earth look like siblings: it is almost identical in size and is a rocky planet like Earth. But up close, Venus is more like an evil twin: it is covered with thick clouds ...