"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

Imagine a place where temperatures soar to over 450°C, where thick clouds of toxic sulfuric acid rain down, and the ...

Venus, often called Earth’s “twin,” is a planet of extremes. Though similar in size, mass, and composition, Venus couldn’t be ...

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

Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon dioxide, raising temperatures ...

Could microbial life be drifting in the clouds of Venus? With unexplained signs of phosphine and ammonia scientists are developing a bold new space mission to find out. A UK-backed space mission may s ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, modified the backup Mariner 4 spacecraft to operate closer to the Sun, and on June 14, 1967, NASA launched Mariner 5 on a 127-day ...

Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of Uranus as an unusually cold planet isn't true, but that it does actually ...

The answer to whether tiny bacterial lifeforms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once-and-for-all by a UK-backed mission. Over the past five years researchers have detected the ...

Three significant meteor showers are going on at the same time these next two weeks. Also exciting is the gap between the two brightest planets shrinking rapidly on the way ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere. A meteorite is a meteoroid that survives passage ...