The sun-studying Solar Orbiter spacecraft will swing by Venus on Saturday (Sept. 3) and gather bonus observations of our neighbor planet's mysterious magnetic field.

Venus and Mars also have aurorae, but they lack magnetic fields. What happens there is very different from what happens on Earth, but as a presentation from the American Geophysical Union Meeting ...

Now, researchers are combining data from both of these missions to learn more about Venus and its magnetic field. Artist impression of the BepiColombo flying by Venus on 10 August 2021.

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of ...

Venus and Mars also have aurorae, but they lack magnetic fields. What happens there is very different from what happens on Earth, but as a presentation from the American Geophysical Union Meeting ...