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

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

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

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal ...

Lost in space. Meanwhile, the botched probe that failed to get from Earth to Venus was "renamed" Kosmos-482. According to the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), a ...

The transit of Venus of June 5-6, 2012 will offer the rare sight of Venus as a small dot marching slowly across the sun's face. ... Earth, Venus and the sun will be in a straight line.

A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have warned in a new study.. These space rocks, known as co-orbital asteroids ...

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 ...