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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

“We know that on Earth there are long-term atmospheric cycles, so it could happen on Venus as well. We can’t dismiss this possibility at the moment.” Volcanoes, however, are a lot more likely.