Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

Because the known Venus co-orbitals have strong eccentricity, they can move farther away from Venus and closer to Earth, thus becoming easier to see in our sky at twilight, when the Sun is below the ...

Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...

It’s especially puzzling since Venus is a terrestrial world much like Earth, so much so that it’s considered to be our planet ...

The root of this prey-catching technique is a chemical ion channel named DmMSL10 that surrounds the base of a Venus fly ...

A Japanese research team has unraveled the Venus flytrap's detailed mechanism to detect insects using its touch sensor. While ...

Lava tubes are familiar on Earth. They form when the surface of a lava flow hardens while molten rock continues to drain ...

As previously reported, the Venus flytrap attracts its prey with a pleasing fruity scent. When an insect lands on a leaf, it ...

Forty-three years ago, in March 1982, humanity received its last direct visual postcard from the surface of Venus.

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

An ion channel called DmMSL10 functions as a high‑sensitivity touch sensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap, ...