The transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 offered a way to calculate the true size of the Solar System. Getting to the right ...

One of the weirdest places in our Solar System may actually be a great place to search for alien life: the skies of Venus. We don’t have evidence of life — or even indisputable evidence that life ...

Skywatchers are in for a spectacular celestial treat this June as Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets visible from ...

A planetary conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – sometimes more – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. Both Venus and Jupiter are making ...

Artist’s impression of GJ 1214 b passing in front of its host star. The “transit method” allows astronomers to study an exoplanet by seeing which wavelengths of light dim when the star’s light passes ...

Labroots previously examined the planet Venus, calling it “The Deceptive Planet”. This was due to its beautiful atmosphere that hides an extremely hot and corrosive surface. This is because while ...

Preliminary results of a study presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna indicate that ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think the closer you are to the sun, the hotter they must be. Now that's mostly ...