Venus is not a gas planet, but a rocky planet. The interior of Venus is made of a metallic iron core that's roughly 2,400 miles (6,000 km) wide. Venus' molten rocky mantle is roughly 1,200 miles ...

It has the longest days of any planet in the solar system. A full rotation on its axis, also known as a sidereal day, takes 243 Earth days. A year on Venus – the time it takes for the planet to make ...

Orbital oddball. The only planet named after a female figure, Venus is a celestial oddball. Though its rocks are shades of grey, its atmosphere imparts an eerie orange glow to the landscape.

Venus, the second planet from the sun and Earth's nearest planetary neighbor is an oddity in many ways. The hot, hellish planet spins backward and might even host life in its impenetrable clouds.

Venus was the goddess of beauty in ancient Rome and her brightly shining planetary namesake lives up to that hype. When Venus is in the evening sky, you notice her. When she is in the predawn sky ...

Meanwhile, Venus is closer to the Sun than we are, so its year (the time it takes to orbit the sun once) is only 225 days. Venus is the only planet in the solar system with a situation like this.

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only around every eight years, according to EarthSky. Typically, Venus ...

Long days, short years: An odd quirk about Venus, writes NASA, is that it rotates very slowly on its axis but orbits the sun much faster than Earth. One day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days. Its year ...

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 ...