With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

Venus in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius is sexy and intense and could ignite a change that’s as thrilling as it is ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

Planets continue their nighttime shows, with eight visible at points during February, including Venus on Feb. 14.

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...