When the Soviet Venera probes landed on Venus, their survival was measured in minutes before the planet’s brutal environment destroyed them. This video explores what happens to spacecraft after ...

The Soviet Venera missions were the first spacecraft to land on the surface of Venus. But shortly after transmitting their historic images, the probes suddenly went silent. This video examines the ...

On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

Venus’ surface has long been hidden beneath thick clouds and sparse data, but new research is beginning to illuminate what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Features on Venus seen by ...

What new insights about lava tubes on Venus can scientists gain about the planet’s formation, evolution, and present volcanic activity? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications ...

Venus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius. The climate at the surface is oppressive; as well as being hot, the ...

On a flyby of Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the first visible light images of the cloudy planet’s surface from space, a new study reports. The nightside view of the extremely hot surface ...

The surface of Venus is scoured with strange, quasi-circular features called coronae. Unlike anything seen on Earth today, they can stretch hundreds of miles in diameter, even going past the thousand ...