Space scientists are pouring much time and effort into colonising Mars. But could we also live in the atmosphere of Venus? BBC Future investigates. It’s hot enough to melt lead, the acid rain ...

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Life as we know it shouldn’t be able to survive in Venus’s swirling atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. Its clouds are so acidic, in fact, that they don’t even register on the ...

Just like out of a “Star Wars” movie, NASA is investigating the possibility of building a blimp-suspended city in the clouds high above Venus' searing-hot surface.

Venus is much closer to Earth than Mars, so the time spent in space for future explorers would be minimized compared to a similar manned-Mars mission, which could take between 650 and 900 days ...

Punishing conditions in the clouds of Venus could be home to a DNA-like molecule capable of forming genes in life very different to that on Earth, according to a new study.

Then on December 14, 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 mission (opens in a new tab) went into orbit around Venus, probed its cloud layer with microwaves and infrared, and delivered a feverish reading.

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 ...