With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...

It's possible that Venus and Earth once simultaneously existed as pleasant worlds hosting mild temperatures and oceans. Then, something went awry. In new research, planetary scientists simulated ...

Why is Venus so different? Several scientific instruments are to explore our neighboring planet. ESA has now awarded the ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...