Venus is officially a lonely planet. After losing contact with the Akatsuki spacecraft last year, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) ...

You can observe a lot of things from space.' 'Another thing is communication, in real time, especially in war-like situations ...

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites into a low Earth orbit, which was captured by the Energy ...

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission ...

Regulus, a distant star, Venus and our moon will be visible during a conjunction tonight, and how Californians can best see it.

Early risers across the globe were treated to a rare and visually striking celestial event on September 19, as the waning ...

A new study warns of an undiscovered population of asteroids that could strike Earth with little to no warning.

Strange, quasi-circular circles structures called coronae scour the surface of Venus — but their origins are a mystery.

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

What new methods can be employed to help astronomers distinguish the light from an exoplanet and its host star so the ...

Fifteen years after launch, JAXA has said goodbye to the spacecraft, our only working probe around Earth's "sister planet".

Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun and were typically formed during the solar system's development ...