Venus will align with the sun and Earth to undergo a superior solar conjunction later today (Jan. 6), but what does that mean ...

From meteor showers to visible nebulas, August is primed to be an action-packed month for stargazers in the United States. And one of the highlights of the month? The impending meet-up of Jupiter and ...

Discover why the solar system's planets are arranged as they are, shaped by formation conditions and planetary migration.

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think the closer you are to the sun, the hotter they must be. Now that's mostly ...

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 ...

Venus rotates in the opposite direction to most planets in the Solar System, and it does so incredibly slowly. One full ...

In the depth of winter, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. In total six planets will be visible, four of them to the naked eye - Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.VIDEO ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade". Throughout much of January and February, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, ...

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 ...

The stars may not be aligning on Friday night, but seven planets in our solar system just may be. For weeks, outer space enthusiasts have been gearing up for a planetary alignment, or "planetary ...

In June 2012, Hinode probe (of JAXA and NASA), dedicated to the study of the Sun, observed the planet Venus transiting in front of our star. In the next decade, researchers will start probing the ...