Venus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius. The climate at the surface is oppressive; as well as being hot, the ...

In July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s wide-field camera photographed a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere when they ...

Bright, swirling cloud tops can be seen in the upper part of Venus' dense atmosphere; this thick blanket makes it difficult to study the planet's surface. Bright, swirling cloud tops can be seen in ...

The mountains in Venus' Aphrodite Terra region may prompt the strange weather patterns observed in the thick cloud layer near the top of the planet's insufferable atmosphere, new research shows. With ...

Venus remains one of the least mapped planets in our solar system despite it being our other closest neighbour, but new analysis of its thick clouds might give us answers to what lies beneath. We’ve ...

The Parker Solar Probe captured the first direct views of the surface of Venus we've seen in 40 years! The surface of Venus is shrouded in layers of cloud, but on a recent flyby, NASA's Parker Solar ...