A rare planetary conjunction will bring Venus and Jupiter together in the evening sky on June 9, 2026, offering a bright ...

Russia has unveiled plans for the 2036 launch of its ambitious Venera-D mission to Venus. This mission, consisting of a lander, balloon, and orbiter, marks a bold return to one of the most hostile ...

A new Venus project would extend a series of successful landing missions in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s by previous Venera spacecraft operated by the former Soviet Union, which rem ...

A team of astronomers have conducted a study that has lifted the veil on a nearly 100 year mystery that explains an odd dark ...

Lucian and his men on the Moon fighting strange creatures. Illustration by William Strang (1894). Public Domain The first science fiction novel about man on the Moon was written in Greek by Lucian of ...

ISRO chairman V Narayanan said India plans to collect lunar samples under Chandrayaan-4, while Chandrayaan-5 will feature a ...

Russia plans to make Venus the first target for deep space exploration after completing a research mission on the moon. This was announced on March 10 by the first deputy chairman of the Government of ...

Venus and Saturn will appear close together in the night sky Sunday, March 8. Here's how to see the conjunction from around ...

Venus and Saturn are due up for a visually striking event known as a planetary conjunction. Here's everything to know about ...

Each night, just after sunset, the planet Jupiter will be shining brightly, high in the southern sky, near the stars Pollux ...

For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our first car. A choice coffee mug. And for a particular subset of the ...