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 ...

Venus rotates in the opposite direction to most planets in the Solar System, and it does so incredibly slowly. One full ...

A strange, gargantuan wall of acid-filled clouds on our neighboring planet Venus has been spotted by a hobbyist astronomer. This structure, known as the Venus Cloud Discontinuity, is around 5,000 ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express spacecraft has discovered that our cloud-covered neighbor spins a little slower than previously measured. Peering through the dense atmosphere in the ...

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 ...

When you gaze at the morning sky, you expect a planet’s day to be shorter than its year. But on Venus, that rule flips on its head in a way that makes you reconsider how time really flows in the solar ...

The Science of Siblings is a series exploring the ways our siblings can influence us, from our money and our mental health all the way down to our very molecules. We'll be sharing these stories over ...

Astronomers are full of facts about far-distant stars, but they know almost nothing about Venus, the earth’s nearest (26 million miles) planetary neighbor. Its size, density and period of rotation are ...