Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When I think about what makes someone care about the natural world, ...

Venus, our neighbor, has long teased astronomers by being the brightest planet in our night sky. That curiosity about what hides behind its twinkle prompted NASA scientists to send the Pioneer Venus ...

Scientists say that the search for life on Venus has taken a new direction after a recent discovery made by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The telescope, which has been observing distant ...

A landscape that appears utterly hostile. Credit: Venera 13 Lander / Soviet Space Program (1982) Forty-three years ago, in March 1982, humanity received its last direct visual postcard from the ...

When we think of all things desirable—love, romance, money, attraction, allure, luxury, possessions, and magnetism—we likely enter the territory of Venus. In astrology, this planet represents ...

The CEO is interested in bringing back rock samples collected by the agency's Perseverance rover from the red planet after some of the samples collected by the rover contained mineral textures that ...

Venus, our planet of love, attachment, attraction and wealth, is moving into the fastidious fields of Virgo this week. Padding out of the lion’s den of Leo, where Venus expresses itself via sex tapes, ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, is being monitored by the James Webb Space Telescope, the most ...

Seismic activity on the Red Planet – unsurprisingly called marsquakes instead of earthquakes – has allowed scientists to draw some conclusions about the rocky material that makes up the planet's ...

Making the Walker Cup team is an honor in any year, whether you’re representing the United States or Great Britain & Ireland. Making the Walker Cup team this year, however, is an extra special treat ...