Mar 13, 2025 · Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and the sixth largest planet. It’s the hottest planet in our solar system. Venus is a cloud-swaddled planet and our nearest planetary neighbor. It has a surface hot enough to melt lead. Get the Facts

Jan 22, 2025 · Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and Earth's closest planetary neighbor. Venus is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon. Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction from most planets.

Dec 16, 2024 · Although not currently habitable, Venus lies within the Sun’s "Goldilocks zone," and may have been habitable before Earth. Exploring the surface of Venus is difficult because of the intense heat and crushing air pressure.

Mar 5, 2025 · Learn more about Venus, a cloud covered planet named for a goddess of love and often called Earth's twin. Explore In a Magellan image dubbed the "Crater Farm," we see the curious layering of volcanic activity and impact craters on Venus.

Aug 10, 2016 · Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet’s ancient climate by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for …

Dec 16, 2024 · DAVINCI’s probe will be the first in the 21st century to brave Venus’ atmosphere as it descends from above the planet’s clouds down to its surface. Two other missions, NASA’s VERITAS and ESA's (European Space Agency) Envision, will also explore Venus in the 2030s from the planet’s orbit.

Feb 28, 2025 · The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft.... Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken...

Oct 31, 2018 · Aerial platforms can now be equipped to investigate the structure of Venus' atmosphere and its circulation, and also to determine the chemical nature of the gaseous atmosphere and clouds.

Nov 3, 2024 · As the maturing Sun boiled off Venus’ oceans, Earth’s sister planet evolved into its present hellishly hot state – with a thick, toxic atmosphere, crushing air pressure, and surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. By what processes did Venus lose its oceans and magnetic field, and how and when did plate tectonics shape its surface?

Jan 15, 2020 · Packaging technology able to survive the 465°C, 92- atmosphere, caustic environment of the Venus surface is enabling new planetary exploration.