Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting ...

In an unexpected discovery, two weather satellites designed to monitor Earth’s atmosphere have ended up capturing valuable ...

The recent fall to Earth of a failed Soviet Venus probe from the 1970s has become a detective story of sorts. Different computer models were used to predict the reentry.

The Brief A piece of a failed 1972 Soviet Venus probe is expected to reenter Earth around May 10. The object could fall anywhere between 52° North and 52° South, covering a wide area.

Composite image displaying the size of Venus from Earth. (Credit: 2025 Nishiyama et al. CC-BY-ND) In the end, the researchers found that past observations of temperature changes conducted from the ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.

On March 22, 2025, the Dwingeloo telescope in the Netherlands successfully pulled off an Earth-Venus-Earth (EVE) bounce, making them the second group of amateurs ever to do so.

Venus currently hosts 20 known co-orbitals, including "Trojan" asteroids and the peculiar quasi-moon Zoozve. These objects, each exceeding 460 feet in diameter, could devastate urban areas if they ...