Venus, often called Earth's "sister planet," has long been a mystery, shrouded in dense clouds and extreme temperatures. The Akatsuki probe, launched by Japan’s space agency JAXA, has been on a ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

Venus has groupies—a family of asteroids that share its orbit, either trailing it or leading it as the planet revolves around the sun. Researchers have known that such stealthy space rocks might ...

Several missions have been proposed, including to the sun-Earth or sun-Venus L1 or L2 halo orbit. We know there are asteroids out there with considerable chances to strike Earth.

Once it enters into its orbit around the sun on Christmas Eve, Parker—which is around the size of a small car—is estimated to be traveling at around 430,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed to escape low Earth orbit is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks. Built to withstand extreme heat, parts of the spacecraft could ...

Space Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we don't know where. Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due to come ...

A mock-up of the Soviet Union's Venera 7 probe, similar to Cosmos 482, a Venus probe that never made it past Earth's orbit and is set to reenter the atmosphere in May 2025 (left); and telescopic ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only around every eight years, according to EarthSky.

Researchers’ detection of two gases, phosphine and ammonia, in the clouds of Venus raises speculation about possible life forms in the planet’s atmosphere.