Despite seeming like Earth's twin, Venus is a strange and mysterious place. Scientists haven't known what made it so odd, but that might have just changed.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) JUICE spacecraft launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in April 2023. The ...

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is ready for a planned flyby of Venus on Sunday after the agency fixed ...

Throughout the month of September, stargazers can catch Venus ... planet into October. Mid-September will bring a partial ...

ESA engineers worked through the night to troubleshoot an ill-fated software bug that jeopardized the mission.

The string of planets continues to stretch across our predawn skies, with Saturn reaching its brightest in over 15 years.

Sometime in September, Juno’s orbit will degrade naturally, and Jupiter’s gravity will pull the spacecraft in, and the atmosphere will consume it. Visit www.science.nasa.gov/mission/juno/ for the ...

Venus gleams like a yellow jewel in the pre-dawn sky. Venus rises in the east-northeast shortly before 4 a.m., or 2½ hours ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula.

September is the Autumnal Equinox — the beginning of fall — in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s a look at “What’s up in the sky” in the D.C. region this month.

Mars isn’t the neatly layered world we once imagined — its mantle is filled with ancient, jagged fragments left over from colossal impacts billions of years ago. Seismic data from NASA’s InSight ...

The journal Science recently published a paper that revealed that Mars' mantle consists of giant rocky fragments that emanated from the collision of celestial objects billions of years ago ...