Planet Venus color. Venus is highly visible from Earth due to its reflective clouds. In the sky, Venus appears as a brilliant white object that is one of the brightest natural things in the night sky.

NASA. In the early 1970s, NASA sent Mariner 10 past Venus. In 1974, the probe returned the first close-up image of the planet. In this image, Venus has been color-enhanced to show what it would ...

The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from ...

Most missions have observed Venus from afar, as the planet's climate is hot enough to melt lead. Take a look at some of the best images ever captured of the "evil twin" planet.

Venus, the second-closest planet to the sun, has the solar system’s hottest temperatures among planets. Venera 13 took almost two dozen color and black-and-white panoramic photographs of Venus ...