Venus, often referred to as Earth’s twin due to its size and composition, hides a dangerous and mysterious atmosphere that ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Venus and Mars, planet Earth's two closest neighbors, have been inching ever closer to each other during the month of July. Monday night, they promise to put on a show, appearing at ...

Venus and Saturn will appear extraordinarily close together in the night sky tonight during a celestial event known as a conjunction. To see Venus and Saturn, look to the southwest immediately as the ...

Sometimes, artistic impressions of our solar system contain whimsical or difficult-to-explain oddities. In one case, though, the accidental inclusion of a moon of Venus in a space poster was accurate ...

"These are heavy ions that are usually slow moving, so we are still trying to understand the mechanisms that are at play." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A satellite designed to study Venus from top to bottom and a trio of gravitational wave-surfing spacecraft are two of the latest missions that the European Space Agency has adopted. The agency ...

Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...

Soaring through space nearly a million miles from the earth, Mariner 5 responded smartly last week to signals radioed from Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, thereby ensuring that its Oct. 19 date ...