Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction to most planets. A Venusi ...

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 ...

The orbit now ranges between 66 000 and 250 kilometres over the Venus and it is polar. The pericentre is located almost above the North pole (80 deg North latitude), and it takes 24 hours for the ...

Nation World Venus to pass between the Earth and sun in an inferior conjunction: Here's what that means Such an alignment happens about every 19 months because of how Venus and Earth orbit the sun.

This morning, at the end of a 153-day and 400-million km cruise into the inner Solar System beginning with its launch on 9 November 2005, ESA’s Venus Express space probe fired its main engine at ...

In an unexpected discovery, two weather satellites designed to monitor Earth’s atmosphere have ended up capturing valuable ...

Asteroids around Venus, shown in the background above during a 2012 transit, are difficult to track because they fall inside Earth's orbit and are obscured by the sun's glare. Photograph by NASA/SDO ...

Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with fleet-footed Mercury remaining nearby close to With Mercury sticking low to the ...

Failed Soviet Venus probe is falling back to Earth: When, where Cosmos 482 could land News of Cosmos 482's impending crash landing has been met with questions regarding just precisely when – and ...

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 ...