The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August ...

If you’re willing to get up in the early morning hours you can see up to six planets before sunrise. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, ...

A rare sight is lighting up the early-morning sky this week as Venus and Jupiter appear side-by-side in a close planetary ...

Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in our solar system, are about to make their closest approach during their August ...

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...

"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

Once it enters into its orbit around the sun on Christmas Eve, Parker—which is around the size of a small car—is estimated to be traveling at around 430,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Venus's co-orbital asteroids are considered potentially hazardous asteroids (PHA) if they have "a minimum diameter of about 140 meters and come within 0.05 astronomical units (au) of Earth's orbit ...

Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting back to its home world.

The planetary meet up between the two brightest planets in our solar system is known as the conjunction and takes place over ...

Since the engines failed to reach a necessary velocity to enter Venus' orbit, Cosmos 482 was abandoned in low-Earth orbit and it has moved around the planet ever since.

During the early days of our solar system, giant impacts were common occurrences. Earth likely experienced such an impact ...