Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus’s atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself. An international research team led by Takeshi Horinouchi of Hokkaido University ...

Despite seeming like Earth's twin, Venus is a strange and mysterious place. Scientists haven't known what made it so odd, but ...

Most importantly however, they found that collisions matching Venus's present-day rotation rate typically produce minimal debris disks that reside within Venus's synchronous orbit. This means the ...

Today, our sister planet Venus resembles an environment as close to hell as one can imagine. Surface temperatures on the amber world soar to 450 degrees Celsius (842 degrees Fahrenheit), while about ...

The study shows that atmosphere on Venus’ night side behaves very differently to that on the side of the planet facing the Sun (the ‘dayside’). The nightside exhibits unexpected and previously-unseen ...