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

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

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.

Some lucky stargazers could have a double feature of the planet Venus this weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, the Earth will have an inferior conjunction (closest approach) with Venus, the sixth ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun periodically results in a phenomenon astronomers refer to as an inferior conjunction, which occurs when the planet transitions from appearing in the evening ...