Venus may have been named after the Roman goddess of beauty, but once humans started sending spacecraft to the planet next door, we quickly learned that beauty… hurts.<br/>

NASA’s Magellan mission gave us unprecedented insight into Venus’s rocky surface, and even now, more than 25 years after the mission ended, it’s still one of our main tools for learning about our mysterious, next-door neighbor.

A lot of our knowledge of the inner solar system was gained fairly recently, and the Mariner program led the way!

People have been exploring the oceans since prehistoric times, way before they had GPS to help them figure out where they were. Here are 6 ingenious ways our ancestors navigated the oceans.

Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) highlights the key issue of "retrieval" so integral to sentence production.

Join us as we head to “The Hostess City of the South, Savannah Georgia” on this episode of Travel Thru History. We’re going to a beautiful charming coastal city in the Southeast brimming with an interesting past and an exciting artistic...

How long is a typical day on Mercury? How does an elliptical orbit affect the sunrise on Mercury? What are other unique features of Mercury?<br/>
Mercury, The Solar System Historian, Part 3

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space.
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Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent...

Isn't it cold on Mars? How long is a typical day and year on Mars? What is the Terrain like on Mars? Mars, Earths Closest Neighbor, Part 1

When the Hubble Space Telescope observed Mars near opposition in May, 2016, a sneaky companion photobombed the picture. Phobos, the Greek personification of fear, is one of two tiny moons orbiting Mars. In 13 exposures over 22...

Watch "Return to Venus - Part I" at:From Galileo and the Heliocentric model of the Solar System to James Hansen and climate research, observations of the planet Venus throughout history have given us the perspective we need to...