"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

Venus, often called Earth’s “twin,” is a planet of extremes. Though similar in size, mass, and composition, Venus couldn’t be ...

Venus and Earth may have started similarly, but one became a furnace while the other thrived. The reason may be as simple—and as critical—as geography.

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.

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal ...

On March 22, 2025, the Dwingeloo telescope in the Netherlands successfully pulled off an Earth-Venus-Earth (EVE) bounce, making them the second group of amateurs ever to do so.

“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.

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.