Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting every 224 Earth days. It is the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon. Venus is closer to the Sun than Earth and orbits between the Earth and Sun. Venus is named after the Roman goddess of beauty and is the only planet named after a woman. While similar in size, mass, and gravity to Earth, Venus has the densest atmosphere of the rocky planets due to atmospheric pressure 92 times that of Earth.