In the coming days ahead, if any of your friends or relatives remark to you that they saw a "strange UFO" on the way to work ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only ...

Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, is estimated to have 85,000 volcanoes, based on radar images from NASA's 1989 ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

Venus is a Victim of a Rampant Greenhouse Effect Venus's atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gasses that traps heat and causes the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Venus is the brightest planet. It looks like a big, shiny star in the sky. Tap to read in detail. Venus rotates in the ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

Venus will pass nearly between the Earth and the Sun in an astronomical event known as an inferior conjunction. The moment ...

Also fascinating about Venus is that its axial rotation is opposite to that of Earth, Mars, and all other planets in the Solar System besides Uranus. This means that on Venus the Sun rises in the ...