Venus, often called Earth's "sister planet," shares striking similarities with our world,yet it has become one of the most ...

In 2020, scientists detected phosphine gas on Venus, a molecule linked to microbial life on Earth. New missions funded by ...

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...

For millennia, Venus has graced our skies as the brilliant "Morning Star" or "Evening Star," its dazzling presence inspiring ...

August 2025 brings the Full Sturgeon Moon on August 9, a Venus-Jupiter conjunction on August 12 and the peak of the Perseid ...

The recent fall to Earth of a failed Soviet Venus probe from the 1970s has become a detective story of sorts. Different computer models were used to predict the reentry.

While Venus passes between the Earth and Sun every 19.5 months, it's only about every eight or so years that the planet becomes visible both after sunset and before sunrise, according to the ...

Composite image displaying the size of Venus from Earth. (Credit: 2025 Nishiyama et al. CC-BY-ND) In the end, the researchers found that past observations of temperature changes conducted from the ...

“There is a range of orbits with eccentricities lower than 0.38 for which Venus’ co-orbitals can pose a collisional hazard to Earth,” scientists wrote.

That disk spans an impressive 26” in the sky, thanks to Venus’ proximity to Earth: It is currently just less than 5.9 million miles (9.4 billion km) from our planet, as our two worlds lie ...

The transit of Venus of June 5-6, 2012 will offer the rare sight of Venus as a small dot marching slowly across the sun's face. How to watch, and how to protect your eyes.