World Space Week 2024 is in full swing, focusing on what space science can tell us about climate change; does Earth's "evil ...

If you look up in the sky just after sunset, you will see a bright object in the sky that looks like a star or a satellite.

The spacecraft succeeded where many had failed, peering Venus’ suffocating clouds to showing us the planet’s face for the ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is preparing for its Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM) and the spacecraft is set to ...

As you might imagine, for a planet experiencing a runaway greenhouse effect, Venus is also far hotter than Earth. The hottest ...

People across the UK woke to warnings of 'hurricane force winds' of over 5,000mph due to a glitch in the BBC's weather app.

The BBC has apologised after a weather blunder saw it accidentally forecast hurricane winds and temperatures hot enough to ...

Newly discovered by astronomers publishing for the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, Barnard b orbits the closest solo star ...

Venus is often described as a hellscape. The surface temperature breaches the melting point of lead, and though its atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide, it contains enough sulfuric acid to ...

An odd phenomenon called lithospheric dripping might occur wherever mountains form. Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle ...

Both Venera 9 and 10 landed on Venus in October 1975, providing the first surface images and data on atmospheric pressure and temperature. Pioneer Venus mission — Orbiter and Probes (1978 ...