Venus is the brightest planet in our solar system, has a hellish atmosphere, and is covered in volcanoes. Learn more about planet Venus here.
Venus: The hot, hellish & volcanic planet : Read more
Interesting report. This site lists 4168 exoplanets now,
http://exoplanet.eu/ 169 are super-earths in the range 1.5 to 10 earth masses, most orbit closer to their parent star then Venus does in our solar system to compare here. We have no planets like this in our solar system, Earth is chiefly N2O2 atmosphere, Venus and Mars, chiefly CO2. Some very interesting events took place using the solar nebula model to explain such differences.