It’s all quite incredible.” As a fun aside, the earliest astronomical image ever taken of Jupiter dates back to 1879. Gas ...

Probes are space crafts with cameras to send images back to Earth. This allows us to compare the planets in even more detail. Mercury and Venus are both rocky planets. Mercury is closest to the ...

A new study of a forming planet shows it doesn't match the chemical makeup of its birth disk, challenging pas theories on how ...

Prior to visiting Mercury, Mariner 10 zipped past Venus, making it the first probe in history to fly by more than one planet. In January 1974, the spacecraft captured an ultraviolet view of Venus ...