Venus is a planet defined by its clouds. The world’s thick, reflective envelope not only whips around the planet at breakneck speeds, but also helps our nearest neighbor shine brighter than any object ...

On July 22, 1972, a spacecraft landed on Venus! The Soviet space probe Venera 8 was the second spacecraft to successfully ...

A false-color photo of Venus in ultraviolet light taken by Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft shows textures in the planet’s permanently cloudy atmosphere. Unlike clouds on Earth, which are made of ...

Image of Venus taken by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft. Scientists have found that amino acids may remain stable in the conditions found in Venus's clouds.

“Influence of Venus Topography on the Zonal Wind and UV Albedo at Cloud Top Level: the Role of Stationary Gravity Waves,” J.-L. Bertaux et al., 2016 June 30, Journal of Geophysical Research ...

The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by a UK-backed mission.

The clouds of Venus are made of droplets, Clements said, but they’re not water droplets. There is water in them but also so much dissolved sulfur dioxide that they become extremely concentrated ...

"The Venus clouds are a whole order of magnitude more dry than the Sahara," said Hallsworth, noting that the Sahara has around 0.25 water activity, while the clouds of Venus come in at just 0.004 ...

Venus, which is called 'the twins of the earth ' because it is close in size and density to the earth, has a paper saying that 'there may be living organisms that neutralize acidic clouds and ...

Life as we know it shouldn’t be able to survive in Venus’s swirling atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. Its clouds are so acidic, in fact, that they don’t even register on the ...

Examples of discontinuity events during 2022. The discontinuity was apparent on the nightside lower clouds with 2.26µm images from IRTF/SpeX taken on February 4, and at the dayside middle clouds ...

Some scientists have viewed Venus in a similar way. “At cloud-top level, Venus is the paradise planet,” NASA scientist Geoffrey Landis wrote in research published in 2003. If you traveled to the cloud ...