Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

Venus is a planet so similar to Earth in size and composition. It has often been referred to as Earth’s sister planet. It has also often been the subject of conjecture.

Earth’s cosmic twin, Venus, holds secrets we never saw coming. The infernal planet may just have rewritten our understanding of how violent the early Solar System truly was. The Hidden Story of ...

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

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 ...

Scientists discovered unexpected images of Venus in the background of Earth's weather satellite photos, enabling them to ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.

Image of the Earth taken by Himawari 8 at 18:00 (UTC) on August 11, 2018. The zoom-in images show Venus captured in the ...

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

The answer lies in the world's atmosphere. If Venus was once a watery, habitable world, the composition of water in the planet's erupting gases would reflect this past history.

In contrast, Venus is a toasty world, with surface temperatures that can hit 870 degrees Fahrenheit. In fact, volcanoes and other surface features on the planet clearly exhibit signs of melting.