Now, an amateur astronomer has spotted a strange wall of acid-filled clouds on the planet. Known as the Venus Cloud Discontinuity, the wall is around 5,000 miles long. It cuts across the equator ...

Continuing our hunt to find life in the solar system outside Earth, we turn our thoughts to Venus. Specifically, the clouds of Venus. Venus’s cloud layer extends 30-40 miles above the surface ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat ...

But any life in Venus’s clouds would have to find a way to keep its organelles in and deadly venusian acids out, while surviving with almost no water. Grzegorz Słowik, a planetary scientist at ...

Did life on Venus die or hide? NASA's Venus Life Equation retools the Drake Equation to explore past oceans, microbial ...

Researchers present the Venus Life Equation, a novel formula to approximate the possibility of life on Venus, shedding light ...

In their pursuit, they’ve looked at Venus, which has recently raised speculation because of the possibility of life in its clouds. Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at University of Wisconsin’s ...

An international team of astronomers including UK scientists from Manchester and Cardiff, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule – phosphine – in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is ...

Mercury has almost no atmosphere. A thick atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide covers Venus, trapping heat and raising surface temperatures. Clouds on Venus form from sulfuric acid.

Holcomb Observatory: Venus 'easy to spot' in February "Venus will be very easy to spot this month (in Indiana) even if the clouds stop us from seeing the Roman goddess of Love this Valentine's weekend ...