In December, Venus dazzles as the "Evening Star," Jupiter reaches its brightest for the year, and the Geminid meteor shower peaks under challenging moonlit skies.

The New Space Race Since the last landing on the Moon by Apollo 17 in 1972, men have not ventured into space further than near-Earth orbit. This can also be considered the date at which space ...

Venus was once covered in water. Or was it? An analysis of our twin planet’s atmosphere suggests it could never have ...

A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbor was once much more like Earth than it is today.

New research reveals that Venus never had oceans, debunking theories of a potentially habitable past. Comparing Earth and ...

Our sister planet is thought to have once been a habitable world, but a new study could change that narrative and alter the ...

Astronomers have speculated for decades that Venus could once have been remarkably similar to Earth – and might have been ...

Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes called Earth's twin based on their similar size and rocky composition.

The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across ...

“We won’t know for sure whether Venus can or did support life until we send probes at the end of this decade,” Constantinou ...

The 20th century saw humankind’s first careful steps outside of the biosphere in which our species has evolved. Whereas ...