NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft flew by Venus. The Mariner 2 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral on August 27, 1962, and ...

Venus has an active surface, including volcanoes. The surface pressure is 9.3 megapascals (93 bars), and the average surface temperature is 737 K (464 °C; 867 °F).

"We would have loved to find that Venus was once a planet much closer to our own, so it’s kind of sad in a way to find out ...

"It is hard to imagine Venus ever having supported Earth-like life, which requires liquid water," researcher Tereza ...

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Its temperatures could have been cool enough to support life, but warm enough to maintain vast bodies of liquid water. To see ...

A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest ...

We've long believed that Venus was once more like Earth before it turned into a scorching, sulfurous planet. Not so, ...

“If Venus was habitable in the past, it would mean other planets we have already found might also be habitable,” Constantinou ...

From the largest planets to comets, there are a variety of worlds in the Solar System that experience aurorae. On Earth, the ...

Planets like Jupiter and Venus reflect bounties of light from the sun — and unlike stars, the vivid planets don't twinkle.