NASA has confirmed that comet 3I/ATLAS—only the third interstellar object ever detected—will make a close but safe pass by the Sun and Venus later this year. The rare visitor, discovered by the ATLAS telescope in Chile,

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA on Wednesday announced plans to launch a pair of missions to Venus to better understand how Earth’s neighbor became an "inferno-like world," when it may have once been closer to our own climate. Venus, the solar system’s ...

When NASA sent out its Pioneer Venus mission in 1978, its Large Probe plummeted into the dense, yellow atmosphere of the planet, measuring gases that whirled about it. Two onboard instruments, the Large Probe Neutral Mass Spectrometer and the Large Probe ...

The dream of living on another planet has intrigued scientists, engineers, and explorers for a long time. Now, the dream is moving closer to becoming a reality with researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) and beyond exploring how human beings could one day build thriving communities away from the planet.

Thousands of NASA employees will be leaving the agency in the span of a few months, and the reason why raises many concerns about both science and basic safety.

A planetary conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – sometimes more – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. Both Venus and Jupiter are making their close approaches to one another and will shine ...

A spectacular recent find points towards life on another planet in our solar system. NASA scientists presented a study that Venus could have been a habitable planet two or three billion years ago with a climate that supported water. Computer simulations ...