From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn ...

The pressure on Venus's surface is about 90 times that of Earth, equivalent to being deep in the ocean, making it ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will resume public viewing after the holidays when students return to campus. Check their website ( or call the information line (804-752-3210) for upd ...

While there may be volcanoes pushing out hot magma on the surface of Venus, the hottest planet in the Solar ... clearing it and collapsing its greenhouse effect. The Earth became cold, as well as ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the atmospheric origin of exoplanet GJ 1214 b and its results challenges ...

Mercury has the quickest orbit, completing a circuit round the Sun every 88 Earth days Venus is the most inhospitable place in the entire solar system, where a runaway greenhouse effect has ...