"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

In an unexpected discovery, two weather satellites designed to monitor Earth’s atmosphere have ended up capturing valuable ...

Venus, often called Earth’s “twin,” is a planet of extremes. Though similar in size, mass, and composition, Venus couldn’t be ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal ...

Venus doesn't have tectonic plates, like Earth does. Here on our home world, the fragmented plates into which the crust is divided generate a vibrant, active geology and surface features, allowing ...

Lost in space. Meanwhile, the botched probe that failed to get from Earth to Venus was "renamed" Kosmos-482. According to the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), a ...

The Brief. A piece of a failed 1972 Soviet Venus probe is expected to reenter Earth around May 10. The object could fall anywhere between 52° North and 52° South, covering a wide area.

Volcanoes, however, are a lot more likely. One reason is that they’re known sources of SO2, at least on Earth. Another is that Venus is peppered with them — hundreds upon hundreds of volcanic ...

Two decades after NASA was tasked with tracking 90 percent of near-Earth asteroids, the discovery of Venus' co-orbitals underscores the need to expand current search parameters.

A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have warned in a new study.. These space rocks, known as co-orbital asteroids ...

Venus's co-orbital asteroids are considered potentially hazardous asteroids (PHA) if they have "a minimum diameter of about 140 meters and come within 0.05 astronomical units (au) of Earth's orbit ...