New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once ...

Recent simulations and research have unveiled a fascinating new insight into the history of the solar system’s terrestrial ...

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...

Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting ...

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments) ...

For millennia, Venus has graced our skies as the brilliant "Morning Star" or "Evening Star," its dazzling presence inspiring ...

“There is a range of orbits with eccentricities lower than 0.38 for which Venus’ co-orbitals can pose a collisional hazard to Earth,” scientists wrote.

That disk spans an impressive 26” in the sky, thanks to Venus’ proximity to Earth: It is currently just less than 5.9 million miles (9.4 billion km) from our planet, as our two worlds lie ...

A Soviet postage stamp celebrates Venera 8, a mission to explore Venus that launched on March 27, 1972. Another spacecraft that launched four days later didn't make it out of Earth's orbit.