Mars gets all the attention, but Venus might actually be a better candidate for human colonization. Instead of living on the ...

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s response to space weather conditions. However, to more directly study incoming ...

The VERVE mission seeks to investigate the presence of bacterial life floating in the heavy cloud cover on Venus up close.

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

NASA has released the closest-ever images of the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from its surface. Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has gradually circled closer to the sun, flying ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.