I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

The pressure on Venus's surface is about 90 times that of Earth, equivalent to being deep in the ocean, making it ...

Venus doesn't have a moon, which is what gives Earth things like ocean tides and ... relatively slow rotation rate, how its magnetic field changed over time, or anything about the chemistry ...

But when scientists look closer at Venus and Earth, they find many fundamental differences between them beyond their ...

It's possible that Venus and Earth once simultaneously existed as pleasant worlds hosting mild temperatures and oceans. Then, something went awry. In new research, planetary scientists simulated ...

When it does, scientists say that the Sun will destroy Earth, Mercury, and Venus, leaving our entire solar system devastated. One day, the Sun may destroy Earth or make it unlivable due to the ...

A few days later on January 17-18, Venus and Saturn will get close in the sky for a conjunction. NASA says the two planets will be just two degrees apart in the evening sky. All the while, Mars will ...

Venus spins at a much slower rate than Earth. One complete rotation of Venus takes 243 Earth days. Imagine a school day that long… To make things stranger, a year on Venus lasts only 225 Earth days.