On July 22, 1972, a spacecraft landed on Venus! The Soviet space probe Venera 8 was the second spacecraft to successfully execute a soft landing on the planet's surface. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

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A rocky planet nearly 50 light-years away appears to be airless, dark, and covered in volcanic or weathered rock, according to new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. This is the first ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly mapped the surface of a rocky planet outside our solar system, and the result is stark: a scorched, pitch-black world with no atmosphere, no clouds, and ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...