When his father died ten years later, the boy’s uncle, a bishop, oversaw his wide-ranging education, sending him to elite universities in Krakow, Bologna and Padua to prepare him for a career in ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

The predawn hours of April 28 will see a planetary triangle form in the night sky, as Venus makes a close approach to Saturn following a conjunction, while Neptune, invisible to the naked eye, will ...

On April 24, Venus, Saturn and the North Node of Destiny will collide in a powerful conjunction in the dreamy and romantic sign of Pisces. Venus is exalted — working at its fullest potential ...

The idea of using balloons to study the atmosphere of Earth's true sister planet, Venus, is not new. Yet, as more and more such ideas come to light, we begin to get a true sense of how difficult ...

The crust of volcanically active Venus could be churning with convection currents just like the Earth's mantle. This is the conclusion of researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis ...

‘Smiley face’ in the sky: The close alignment of Venus, Saturn, and a crescent moon created a formation resembling a smiling face during a rare cosmic event. Sky smiled back! In the early ...

Between 30 to 40 minutes before sunrise on Friday, April 25, a slender waning crescent moon will appear left of a bright planet Venus and the much fainter Saturn to create a tilted happy face, ...

More than five decades ago, Cosmos 482 was hurled into space. Hopes were high as the Soviet Union targeted Venus in 1972. But the mission went astray and remained trapped around Earth. Now ...

There would be a triple conjunction of the planets Venus and Saturn, along with the crescent Moon. According to astronomers, a glimpse of this phenomenon can be viewed at around 5.30 am on April 25.