Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.

Instead, the only photos of Venus’ surface we have to look at were captured by Soviet-era spacecraft over 40 years ago. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, residing right between Earth and ...

A recent paper suggests that if astrobiologists want to make an educated guess about what life on Venus might look like, they ...

However, the spacecraft has also managed to capture a series of first-of-their-kind images of Venus. The images feature the surface of Venus in visible light. A first for NASA. Parker captured the ...

Venus is not an obvious place to look for life. Its globe-spanning cloud decks are made of sulfuric acid, “a feature that was long believed to be sterile for any organic chemistry,” said MIT ...

And yet, it's a place so hostile we've barely scratched its surface ... make Venus the hottest place in the solar system, Sun not included. The ball of rock hasn't been always like this.