This photo provided by Qiong Wu in March 2025 shows an ancient wasp, preserved in amber from Myanmar, whose back end resembles a Venus flytrap plant. (Qiong Wu via AP) ...

Analysis of wasps trapped in amber has revealed that the insect ensnared hosts for its larvae with an alluring, Venus flytrap-style butt. Named Sirenobethylus charybdis, the insect is known from ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

Some lucky stargazers could have a double feature of the planet Venus this weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, the Earth will have an inferior conjunction (closest approach) with Venus, the sixth ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun periodically results in a phenomenon astronomers refer to as an inferior conjunction, which occurs when the planet transitions from appearing in the evening ...

An inferior conjunction occurs when a celestial body, like Venus, passes directly between the Earth and the Sun. This alignment makes the planet appear in the sky near the Sun, which often makes it ...

Since Venus and Mercury are "inferior" planets compared with the Earth — meaning their orbits are closer to the sun, according to NASA — they create inferior conjunctions when swinging between ...

This discovery is critical, as it proposes that the planet's atmosphere could be similar to Venus', but on an enormously larger scale. When light travels through the atmosphere, researchers ...