The two innermost planets, Venus and Mercury, will shine together low in the western sky at sunset on March 10. Here's how to ...

Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.

Since launch in 2020, Solar Orbiter has carried out a number of gravity assists at Earth and Venus to gradually shrink its orbit and bring it closer to the sun, but never before has it come as ...

Over eight years, Venus will retrograde five times in different signs. If we track the orbit of Venus across the sky from sign to sign across this cycle, part of the retrograde phases form a five ...

Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The universe seems to like spirals!" ...

A total lunar eclipse occurs this month. Venus transitions from evening to morning, while Mars and Jupiter dominate the late ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Venus is moving closer to Earth on its shorter orbit of the sun, which takes 225 Earth days for it to complete. The distance between the two planets will be shortest on the date of inferior ...

Seven planets are on display in the night sky at the end of February, but some will be harder to spot than others. Here’s what you need to know to catch a glimpse.