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 ...

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 shield called "HEEET." ...

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 ...

"Clouds of Venus" chronicles the United States' early attempts to explore the planet Venus through the Mariner spacecraft missions. The film details the launch of Mariner 1 and its subsequent ...

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

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 ...

Venus is really on the move… here's a great study of the changing phases of the perpetually cloud-shrouded world from September 24 to March 9, courtesy of Efrain Morales: It's amazing that ...

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.