Interesting facts about the planet Venus 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 ...

In 1990 NASA’s unmanned Magellan spacecraft became the first mission to orbit the planet Venus. It hitched a ride into Earth orbit in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1989.

Watch the video below to learn 100 fascinating facts about Venus, and check out other things you might want to know about Earth, the Sun, the Moon, and our solar system.

The VERITAS mission to Venus is back on. NASA offered new details about when the launch will happen and what scientists hope to learn about the planet and climate change. A little under a year ago ...

NASA scientists found that the outer shell of Venus may be resurfacing the planet. The team studied geological features called "coronae" in Magellan mission images.

And there could be many more on the blisteringly hot planet. Venus is still alive. Scientists studying data sent home by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the early 1990s say they have spotted ...

NASA collaborated with Grammy-winning rapper, singer, and songwriter Missy Elliott to send her song "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” to Venus, the artist's favorite planet. The transmission was sent ...

After more than 30 years away, NASA is going back to a place its administrator describes as a “hot, hellish, unforgiving” world. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus ...

Magellan's image of the vent from February showed a circular vent spanning less than 1 square mile (2.2 square kilometers) with steep interior sides and areas of drained lava on the slopes.