It'll be an active sky over several days in August 2025, with planets visible, meteor showers and nebulas popping up. Here's your handy guide for NJ.

Highlights include a morning meetup between Jupiter and Venus, a chance to see the Perseid meteor shower, and a window into ...

NASA has awarded $1 billion to develop two new missions to Venus. The agency hasn't sent a probe there since the 1990s.

NASA scientists said the two Venus missions were selected on their merits, scoring highest on the agency's assessments. Although both are going to Venus, each mission is different from the other ...

After the detection of phosphine in Venus’ atmosphere, many in the astronomy community are speculating about whether it’s time to return to the planet to look for signs of life. The future of ...

NASA targets Venus with plans to send its first probes there in more than 30 years The missions would study Venus’s atmosphere and topography as well as how Earth evolved, the space agency said ...

NASA/JPL “Venus may have had a major resurfacing of the entire planet 700 million years ago,” Margot explained.

NASA is finally headed back to Venus. On June 2, 2021, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that the agency had selected two winners of its latest Discovery class spacecraft mission ...

Until this month, Venus had been somewhat lonely. NASA’s last mission to the second planet was Magellan, which burned up in its skies in 1994.

NASA has announced that it will send two probes to Venus towards the end of the decade, in what will be the first time the agency has visited the hellish planet in more than 30 years.

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine described the planet Venus as “one stop in our search for life.” “Today, we are on the cusp of amazing discoveries that could tell us more about the ...

Up close, NASA says the color of Venus is "rusty", but not the kind of deep red rust one would find on the planet Mars. Rather, pictures NASA and others have sent back from Venus suggest a world ...