NASA’s James Webb Telescope uncovers GJ 1214 b, a super-Venus exoplanet with a carbon dioxide-heavy atmosphere, challenging ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

NASA Deep Atmosphere of Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging” (DAVINCI) will launch to Venus in 2029 ...

Planetary scientists simulated past events on Venus to determine why Venus and Earth are so different. They found geological ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope reveal GJ 1214 b, a unique exoplanet with a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere, ...

Surpassing expectations, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX endured a near-Sun passage, outperforming its heat tolerances and remaining ...

On the evenings of Jan. 17 and 18, the planets will appear virtually side by side, in what's called a “planetary conjunction.

Here’s how NASA describes it in the agency’s daily skywatching guide: “Saturday evening, January 18: Venus and Saturn will appear nearest to each other. As evening twilight ends at 6:15 p.m ...

Scientists think it's possible that life cells from Earth could've been transferred to Venus, thanks to asteroid impacts over ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Sunlight tends to wash out such objects as they sidle up to the star, but this one can be viewed at dawn or dusk, its own ...