Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline a spectacular month of planetary viewing.

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

SAN FRANCISCO -- Venus and Mars, planet Earth's two closest neighbors, have been inching ever closer to each other during the month of July. Monday night, they promise to put on a show, appearing at ...

On Saturday evening (Oct. 5) as darkness is falling, be sure to take a look low toward the west-southwest part of the sky for a beautiful celestial tableau formed by a lovely crescent moon and the ...

On May 20, 1978, NASA launched a spacecraft to Venus. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com]( The mission was called Pioneer-Venus ...

New photos have revealed the "love planet" Venus looking unrecognizable as it prepares to line up for a striking conjunction later this week. The hellish world has transformed into a slim crescent, ...

The Soviet Union accomplished one of the greatest feats in space exploration by successfully landing probes on Venus — a ...

Models suggest that impact-ejected material from Earth could reach Venus’ clouds and potentially survive there briefly.

During a brief swing by Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected a natural radio signal that revealed the spacecraft had flown through the planet’s upper atmosphere. This was the first direct ...

A hidden swarm of "city killer" space rocks, known as co-orbital asteroids, is likely hiding around Venus and could pose an "invisible threat" to Earth over the coming millennia if the asteroids are ...

Space collaboration got a big boost during PM Modi’s visit to Europe. Sweden has formally joined India’s orbiter mission to the Venus planet by signing an agreement to collaborate on the ...