Venus, the second planet from the Sun, has a thick, opaque atmosphere, preventing optical-based telescopes and orbiting space ...

Stunning facts about Venus, Earth's 'sister planet,' where every day is 900 degrees. Dean Regas. Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.

Venus, for instance, may be a next-door neighbor of the Earth, but no spacecraft has ever made the journey there faster than August 1962's Mariner 2 mission, which took 109 days to arrive.

Venus doesn't appear to harbor a churning seismic engine like that on Earth, ... 4.5 billion years ago, another planet crashed into Earth. We may have found its leftovers. SCIENCE.

Venus orbits at an average distance of 108 million kilometres from the Sun. Photo Credit: NASA Venus's thick atmosphere, mostly made of carbon dioxide, traps heat, causing it to stay extremely hot.

A five-planet alignment of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars will be visible in the night sky on Tuesday, March 28. The large planetary alignment can be spotted March 28, 2023.