A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

Venus is often called Earth's twin - but it hides a hellish reality beneath its clouds. With surface temperatures hotter than ...

A strange, gargantuan wall of acid-filled clouds on our neighboring planet Venus has been spotted by a hobbyist astronomer. This structure, known as the Venus Cloud Discontinuity, is around 5,000 ...

Curiosity Point 1: Did a catastrophic event turn Venus into a hellish world?

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

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 ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

The current mood of our astronomers, who not long ago ostracized Pluto, puts the number of planets in our solar system at eight. Four of them, the inner ones, are rocky, while the other half, residing ...

Curiosity Point 1: A catastrophic event turned Venus into a hellish world?

Three celestial bodies will meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the ...