Venus

It will pass by the Pleiades star cluster before slimming to a thin crescent by the end of the month.

NASA is asking the public to help them explore "hell," as the agency terms it — the roasting surface of the planet Venus.

Venus, Jupiter's supervolcanic moon Io and Neptune's big satellite Triton are in NASA's crosshairs.

Tonight (Jan. 28), you can catch the crescent moon make a close approach to Venus in the evening sky.

Venus may still harbor active volcanoes, with eruptions taking place as recently as a few years ago, a new study finds.

On Saturday evening (Dec. 28), a lovely crescent moon will join Venus in the twilight sky, making for an eye-catching post-Christmas celestial ornament.

The sun is right there in the name of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, but a second mission of opportunity may make the spacecraft just as vital to Venus scientists as to those studying our local star.

Earmark the next few evenings! Solar-system siblings Venus and Saturn will appear near each other in the night sky this week.

Ever since it returned to the evening sky just over a month ago, our "sister planet," as Venus is often called, has slowly become increasingly prominent in our early evening sky.

NASA has asked a team of scientists to figure out what they could learn from sending a major mission to Venus and how such a mission might work.

Could a stingray-shaped spacecraft get to the dark side of Venus by flapping its wings?

India has launched just three planetary-science spacecraft, but the country is already eyeing a new destination: Venus.

We could go to Venus tomorrow with the technology we have today, urged a NASA scientific advisory group, and the group's members would like to get a mission off the ground as soon as possible.

Was Venus once covered in a liquid water ocean? A new study suggests it was not, which could diminish hope that eons ago, warm and wet conditions allowed life to arise on the planet.

After an absence of more than a year, the most brilliant planet returns to the evening sky.

Venus may have had a perfectly habitable environment for 2 to 3 billion years after the planet formed, suggesting life would have had ample time to emerge, according to a new study.

Scientists observed large, ultralight reflection variations for the planet Venus, and suspect that the reason might be its thick clouds.

For decades, scientists have suspected that bolts of electricity pulse through the thick atmosphere of Venus, perhaps glinting off the world's acidic clouds.

The ever-brightening sun will evaporate our oceans, too.

A photo of Earth at sunrise shows Venus, our closest neighboring planet, shining in the distance above Earth's shimmering blue horizon.