Mercury, Venus, and Mars sit within the same general neighborhood as Earth, yet each has followed a radically different path.

Venus is not a great place to be. Its surface reaches temperatures up to 475°C, which is hot enough to melt lead. Even high up in the atmosphere where the temperatures and pressures aren’t so intense, ...

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Venus on 10 August 2021 as the spacecraft passed the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre. The image was taken at 13:57:56 UTC by ...

Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled with strange, circular landforms. These rounded mountain belts, known as coronae, have no ...