Venus, the second planet from our Sun, vividly demonstrates why the greenhouse effect makes life impossible. With an average ...

"We would have loved to find that Venus was once a planet much closer to our own, so it’s kind of sad in a way to find out ...

Venus, the second planet from our Sun, vividly demonstrates why the greenhouse effect makes life impossible. With an average surface temperature of roughly 1000º F (500º C) under a toxic ...

The eight planets travel around the Sun at different speeds ... Our Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way at about 140 miles every second. It takes about 230 million years for for it, and ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

A new study has looked into the possibility that our Solar System could capture and provide a home for a rogue planet as they ...

Among all of those, only a few dozen have the right size, mass, and rocky composition, and even fewer orbit stars like our Sun. The number of truly Earth-like or Earth-identical planets identified ...

If that weren't intimidating enough, the second planet from the sun also has clouds of sulfuric acid. Despite these extreme conditions, many scientists theorize that Venus may have been habitable ...

PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away from our planet in ...

It’s Venus—and it's back in the evening sky. Aside from the sun and moon, there is no brighter object in the sky than the second planet from the sun. After many months away from the limelight ...