There's a lot we don't know about the planet nearest to us. Venus is shrouded in clouds, making speculation about what's happening on its surface a parlor game for many planetary scientists for ...

New data from a retired NASA telescope suggests that there is atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of Venus. Although it’s been inferred before, this is the first direct detection on the planet’s day side.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Our closest planetary neighbor Venus keeps leaking carbon and oxygen ...

Venus and Earth share some atmospheric quirks – but how did Venus get so unbearably hot, while Earth is mild and temperate?

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have spotted two gases in Venus's atmosphere that may be the ...

Is alien life really out there? For decades, humanity has looked at the night sky and asked the same question. Now, according to scientists, we may be closer than ever to an answer. Researchers have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now, the same team behind that discovery has come back with more observations, presented for the first time on July 17 at a Royal ...

Venus Express has studied the true extent of Venus’s restless atmosphere. This includes the planet’s glow, its highly variable south polar vortex and the dynamic upper atmosphere, different from what ...

In this image, Venus is just beginning its journey across the face of the sun. Its atmosphere is visible as a thin, glowing border on the upper left of the planet. Two of NASA’s heliophysics missions ...

Venus as seen by ESA's Venus Express in 2007. More traces of a gas thought to be a sign of life have been found in the clouds and haze layers of Venus. They come primarily from the first 50 of 200 ...

In the next decade, researchers will start probing the atmosphere of planets as small as Earth and Venus orbiting nearby stars. But although these two solar system planets are similar in size and bulk ...