A land-ocean pattern like the one shown in this artist’s conception was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient Venus from strong sunlight. (Credit: NASA) Today ...

The volcanoes of Venus are still active today, with at least 37 areas showing recent activity, a new 3D model reveals. This simulation from the University of Maryland and the Institute of Geophysics ...

Spacecraft first measured the chemical makeup of Venus’s atmosphere in the 1960s. By the late 1970s, scientists agreed that available data suggested the Venusian atmosphere was uniformly 3.5% nitrogen ...

Scientists using new computational methods have come up with a new insight into the potential workings of the complex atmosphere of Venus. Venus is shrouded in thick clouds made up mostly of sulfuric ...

Below Venus's toxic clouds of sulfuric acid is an apocalyptic world, with temperatures hot enough to melt lead and pressures that could crush heavy machinery. But it might not always have been so. In ...