On July 22, 1972, a spacecraft landed on Venus! The Soviet space probe Venera 8 was the second spacecraft to successfully execute a soft landing on the planet's surface. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

This is what it would be like to walk on the surface of Venus. The surface of Venus is comparable to the bottom of Earth’s oceans with one major difference: Venus has the hottest planetary surface in ...

Dreams of finding a sort of Earth 2.0 motivate much of the thinking around the search for exoplanets. But there is more to ...

If you're an avid skygazer, you may have noticed two bright objects, Venus and Jupiter, shining in the night sky this week. Now, a third planet is due to join the cosmic fun. That's right, Mercury is ...

It's time for stargazers to start making their plans to see an uncommon spectacle in the night sky as three planets are due for a June celestial get-together. First, it will be Venus and Jupiter ...