Who discovered Venus first?

Answer 1

Venus has been known since antiquity. After the Sun and Moon, Venus is the brightest object in the sky, rising shortly before the Sun or Setting soon afterward. It was discovered to be moving long before recorded history.

Answer 2

Since Venus can be seen with the naked eye, no one really knows who discovered Venus. Venus' beautiful color made it easy for ancient astronomers to find it in the night sky long before the invention of the telescope.

Answer 3

The USSR first attempted to reach Venus with their Venera 1 probe. Contact with the probe was lost seven days after launch. The US NASA probe Mariner 2 was the first successful interplanetary probe. (Mariner 1 was lost on launch.)

Answer 4

It's actually impossible to say who discovered Venus, since the planet has been known since before recorded history. Humans have been on Earth for 200,000 years, so maybe that's how long we've known about the planet.

But ancient astronomers didn't really know what Venus was. They knew it was an object that moved in the sky from night to night, sometimes being obscured by the glare of the Sun. But it wasn't until Copernicus developed his model of the Solar System that placed the Sun at the center, and the planets orbiting it. At that point, both Venus and Earth were recognized to be planets.

Answer 5

No one knows who actually discovered Venus, since it always has been visible from Earth. Sumerian and Babylonian astrologers are credited with being the first to give the planet the name Venus.

Answer 6

Since Venus is visible to the naked eye, it has no single discoverer. It has been known to numerous cultures for thousands of years since before any sort of records were kept..