Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

A new study suggests the planet’s iconic domes owe their strange shape to both thick lava and a flexible surface.

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty. As we travel around the ...

A passing star has been discovered that could cause chaos in the Solar System, sending Earth flying out of orbit.

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They've made ...

Earth’s sister planet reaches greatest western elongation and dichotomy as the waxing Moon slides along the ecliptic in the ...

But with less raw material to work with, Mercury , Venus , Earth and Mars took much longer ... icy bodies into the Kuiper ...

“These two sister missions, both aimed to understand how Venus became an inferno ... when other [rocky planets] in our solar system are not.” One spacecraft, called DAVINCI+, will study ...

The solar system consists of the Sun, our home star, and everything that is bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf ...

There are eight planets in your Snapchat Solar System. It ranks all planets based on how close you are to your friends. The app assigns Venus to your second-best friend and goes to Neptune ...