A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky to the morning sky.

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

These next two weeks bring us a potentially thrilling partial eclipse of the sun and amazing sights of Venus in its once-every-eight-years steepest departure from the evening sky.

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

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Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...