Only Mercury and Venus, which are closer to the sun than our planet, can undergo this unusual alignment. With its relatively tight orbit, Mercury circles the sun fast enough that we see the ...

Venus is Earth's next-door neighbor and could be Earth's twin, if not for the sulfuric acid clouds and hellish surface temperatures.

Venus is white. So is the sun. They’re beautiful anyway. Picture Venus. You know, the second planet from the sun, where the clouds are shot through with sulfuric acid and the surface is hot ...

Venus had arrived, traveling - in what astronomers term a transit - across the sun's face in a show that has happened only once since 1882 and won't happen again until 2117.

VENUS is one of our closest neighbours – but it’s very unlike Earth. In fact, you’d be instantly killed if you ever set foot on the planet. Here’s some of the key info you need to know ...

Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the planet and star will appear low in the east-northeast predawn sky, separated ...

In six billion years the sun will expand into a red giant. That process should consume Mercury, and maybe Venus. For a long time we have thought it might incinerate Earth, too.. But perhaps all is ...

Venus also has the hottest surface of any planet in the Solar System – despite being further from the Sun than Mercury. The average surface temperature is a truly horrifying 464C / 867F.