Carl Sagan once famously, and sarcastically, observed that, since we couldn’t see what was going on on the surface of…
Two spacecraft made historic flybys of Venus last week, and both sent back sci-fi-type views of the mysterious, cloud-shrouded planet.…
When Longfellow wrote about “ships passing in the night” back in 1863, he probably wasn’t thinking about satellites passing near…
Observing the dark side of planets is hard. In the visible spectrum, they are almost unobservable, while in the infrared…
Planets move in mysterious ways. Or at least their surfaces do. Earth famously has a system of tectonic plates that…
A new NASA-supported study by an international team of researchers has determined that life is more likely to exist in…
It’s an exciting time to be a Venus watcher. Our sister planet, which has been the target of only one…
NASA's planetary science program is making a big bet on Venus, after decades of putting its chips on Mars in…
The Parker Solar Probe has been getting in a lot of extracurricular activity lately. Originally designed to observe the Sun,…
Last summer, the Parker Solar Probe flew past Venus on its way to fly closer to the Sun. In a…