With Venus enjoying its 15 minutes of fame (or more accurately, about six hours and 50 minutes), here are five fun facts about our planetary next-door neighbor.1.

Uncover the mysteries of Venus, the solar system's scorching second planet from the sun, renowned for its intense heat and brightness.

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.

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.