Venus, the second planet from the sun, is a a cloud-covered planet with an ultra-hot surface. See photos of the hellish planet in this Space.com gallery. Although Venus is only the planet second ...

Most missions have observed Venus from afar, as the planet's climate is hot enough to melt lead. Take a look at some of the best images ever captured of the "evil twin" planet.

This is a picture of Venus’s atmosphere, taken by the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC) during Venus Express orbit number 465 on July 30, 2007. The view shows the southern hemisphere of the planet.

When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images taken of the surface of Venus by the NASA Magellan spacecraft, they discovered something new: evidence of volcanic activity on Earth ...

NASA / JPL / USGS. NASA sent the Magellan spacecraft to Venus in 1990. Over the following four years, Magellan took pictures of more than 98% of the planet.

Volcanic activity may be common on Venus just as it is on Earth, scientist says Data from an old NASA spacecraft reveals a volcano erupted on the surface of Venus in 1991, a new study in Science says.

Venus, known as Earth’s “sister planet,” is anything but hospitable. With its thick atmosphere, extreme pressure, and scorching heat, Venus has long been considered a lifeless world. However, recent ...

What scientists can lean from discovery of potential life on Venus 04:03. Radar images of the surface of Venus appear to show fresh lava flows, suggesting active volcanoes on the planet.

A pair of Japanese satellites monitoring Earth provides a decade's worth of data regarding Venus to researchers.

Twitter users have posted photos of Mars and Venus appearing close together in the night sky after the two planets were in conjunction. On Tuesday, Earth's two closest planetary neighbours nestled ...

Images of the Venus Cloud Discontinuity taken by Luigi Morrone. This strange wall of cloud travels about 60 times faster than the planet rotates.