To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

Instead, based on the budget process to date and statements from the White House, they view the memos as an effort by the ...

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But ...

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? July holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an ...

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

Mars has always been the top target for human colonization, but what if Venus is a better option? While its surface is extreme, the upper atmosphere has conditions similar to Earth, making it a ...

NASA illustration of the Parker Solar Probe (main) and NASA image of Venus taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft (inset). Parker will image Venus's surface as it flies by the planet today on its way ...

The VERITAS mission to Venus is back on. NASA offered new details about when the launch will happen and what scientists hope to learn about the planet and climate change. A little under a year ago ...

After more than 30 years away, NASA is going back to a place its administrator describes as a “hot, hellish, unforgiving” world. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus ...

NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this view of Venus. The world has blistering surface temperatures, crushing atmospheric pressure and clouds of corrosive acid.