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MAVEN (short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution") has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the ...

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in operation around Mars, and one ...

An international team led by researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong ...

These three mutable signs will be learning life-changing lessons under Dec. 19's new moon, according to an astrologer.

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft flew by Venus. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The Mariner 2 ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Venus's atmosphere rotates about 60 times faster than its surface in a superrotation phenomenon The planet's atmosphere completes one orbit in four Earth days, while Venus rotates in 243 days Study ...

A new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...