Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be ...

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet ...

A SOVIET-era spacecraft has crashed down to Earth more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus. The space vessel ...

Super-Earths might be far more common in the Universe than previously thought. A recent study using the KMTNet telescope ...

Ancient North American droughts were driven by Earth’s orbital shifts, study from the University of Helsinki finds.

Ever since the Space Age dawned in the late 1950s, humans have been filling the skies with trash. The accumulation of dead ...

Elon Musk said in an interview this week with Fox News host Jesse Watters that his focus on Mars has to do with ensuring ...

But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction. Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back to Earth within a decade of the failed launch. No longer ...

Time was, the Soviet Union fairly owned Venus. From 1961 to 1983, the U.S.’s old space race rival launched 16 probes, Venera ...

Three flew past Venus and went into orbit around the Sun. Sixteen orbited or landed on Venus, where they experienced a climate often described as “hellish”. Ten got stuck in Earth orbit.