NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...

NASA also points out that July and August is an excellent chance to view the constellation Aquila, also known as the eagle as ...

Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an ...

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

Why was the mission to Venus put on hold? In 2022, an independent review found institutional problems at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That impacted several missions, including VERITAS.

After more than 30 years away, NASA is going back to a place its administrator describes as a “hot, hellish, unforgiving” world. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus ...

NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this view of Venus. The world has blistering surface temperatures, crushing atmospheric pressure and clouds of corrosive acid. NASA / JPL-Caltech ...

NASA filled in missing data with information from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter. The colors were selected based on those captured by the Soviet Union's surface missions to Venus in the 1970s and '80s.