Tidal forces from Earth, Venus and Jupiter may help keep the sun calm, reducing the risk of powerful solar storms that ...

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

Earth and Venus began as twins—but one became a cradle for life, the other a furnace of death. The difference? It may all ...

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.

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

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But ...

Wake up early to witness the year's most dazzling planetary pairing as Venus and Jupiter close in for a celestial rendezvous.

Yet, despite using the JWST's sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrometer, or NIRSpec, astronomers led by Piaulet-Ghorayeb found no ...

Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany may have found an explanation for the sun's stability.

Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets in our solar system, should be widely visible for much of August in the northern hemisphere.

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

A planetary conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – sometimes more – appear to our vantage from ...