Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out before sunrise and face east. There, you’ll ...

At least three city-killing asteroids that could strike Earth are hiding behind Venus, according to a new study from ...

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

Venus reaches its greatest western elongation (46°) from the Sun at midnight EDT. Earth’s sister planet is now visible in the ...

In 2021, scientists at Arizona State University, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of California, ...

The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mean there's life. Ozone is a sign of life on Earth ...

For decades, scientists wondered why Earth retained its oceans while Venus turned bone-dry and lifeless. The answer: a subtle but powerful force field hidden high in our atmosphere, recently measured ...

Venus is remarkably similar to Earth in size and mass. And although it is a hellish, inhospitable world today, it may once have been a temperate, ocean-covered planet like our own. Understanding ...

This discovery is surprising, for Venus doesn't have tectonic plates like Earth. But latest research based on data collected 30 years ago suggests that Venus' surface is still actively changing ...