It was likely debris from Kosmos 482 — a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 as part of a mission to Venus. The launch failed. The probe never made it to its ...

A collapsed lava tube detected in 30-year-old radar data from Venus may be part of a much wider network of underground caves.

A rare celestial event will be taking place in the sky above California on Saturday night, as six planets are expected to be visible in what is being called a "planetary parade." ...

Sky-gazers will have the opportunity to see six planets in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, according to NASA.

Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be ...

A large planetary alignment will be visible after sunset. Learn which planets you can see and when the next alignments happen.

How to see the February 2026 parade of planets. Which planets will be visible on Feb. 28? Which will be easiest to see? Which ...

A six planet "parade" is set to appear in the night sky tomorrow night, here's the science of the event.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

A team of researchers from the University of Trento spotted what appears to be an underground lava tube on Venus, the first ...

At the start of March, the innermost planet Mercury can also be seen, appearing as a fainter star to the right of Venus. Mercury will be setting around 7pm with Venus setting about half an hour later.