Venus is a Victim of a Rampant Greenhouse Effect Venus's atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gasses that traps heat and causes the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide ...

Interestingly, the moons orbit the planet in retrograde ... Data made possible by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft has revealed an active volcano on the surface of Venus, a planet previously thought to be ...

Imagine telescopes that repair themselves, spacecraft built in orbit, and medical breakthroughs in microgravity ... and the latest on the Giant Magellan Telescope.

March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off ... Gaia's subsystems and sent it into a "retirement orbit" around the Sun. Advertisement "Gaia's ...

The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun's surface at a whopping 430,000 miles per hour (692,000 kilometers per hour), matching the historic ...

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

Data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter is used in an undated composite image of the planet Venus. It will consist of four planets, including Venus, Saturn, Mercury ...

US Space Force aims to deploy maneuverable spacecraft, not as isolated units but housed within a central "mothership" capable ...

Gravitics gets an up-to-$60 million contract to build a satellite that can spit out other satellites as needed.