You’d think we’d have the solar system pretty well figured out by now. It’s our own cosmic backyard, after all. […] ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction to most planets. A Venusi ...

The Solar System is a fascinating place, with each planet orbiting the Sun at its own unique distance. But how far apart are ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

Venus, on the other hand, is the second closest planet to the Sun and orbits 67 million miles away from the sun. But it's the hottest planet in the solar system.

Venus is a volcanic zoo, with a variety of volcanoes, including some that are unique in the solar system. Venus doesn't have plate tectonics, but its crust has uneven thickness, and so, magma from ...

If the solar system’s hottest world, Venus, once had plate tectonics, maybe it was also capable of sustaining life long ago.

Along with helping scientists better understand the conditions for finding life within our solar system, Venus can also be used as an analog for better understanding how we can find life on exoplanets ...

For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed the earliest stages of planet formation around a star outside our ...

She and her team published their findings Sept. 29 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The research takes a deep dive into one of the most mysterious, and inhospitable, bodies in the solar ...

This third flyby of Venus took place on Sunday at 01:26 UTC, when Solar Orbiter passed 12 500 km from the planet’s centre, which is very roughly 6 000 km from its gassy ‘surface’.