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

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

Tasked to look at Earth, Japan's Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully repurposed to observe changes in Venus' cloud-top ...

Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor temporal changes ...

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...

On July 31, Mercury passes through inferior conjunction — between the sun and Earth — and transitions into the morning sky. Venus ...

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...