NASA confirms comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor, will safely pass the Sun and Venus in late 2025, offering scientists a historic research opportunity.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA on Wednesday announced plans to launch a pair of missions to Venus to better understand how Earth’s neighbor became an "inferno-like world," when it may have once been closer to our own climate. Venus, the solar system’s ...

When NASA sent out its Pioneer Venus mission in 1978, its Large Probe plummeted into the dense, yellow atmosphere of the planet, measuring gases that whirled about it. Two onboard instruments, the Large Probe Neutral Mass Spectrometer and the Large Probe ...

The first things they noticed were massive spikes in water at 185𝇈C and 414𝇈C, which were indicative of hydrates such as hydrated ferric sulfate and hydrated magnesium sulfate. They also noticed that water made up the bulk of the aerosols at 62 percent, though almost all of it was bound up in these hydrates.

The dream of living on another planet has intrigued scientists, engineers, and explorers for a long time. Now, the dream is moving closer to becoming a reality with researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) and beyond exploring how human beings could one day build thriving communities away from the planet.

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 their close approaches to one another and will shine ...

Thousands of NASA employees will be leaving the agency in the span of a few months, and the reason why raises many concerns about both science and basic safety.