With each morning, Venus has been rising ever higher and has been getting a little brighter. The planet will reach its brightest in the morning sky on Sept. 19.

Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus ...

The bright morning star Venus crosses from Aries into Taurus, closing in on Uranus for a conjunction later this week.

July's full moon -- known as the Buck Moon or the Thunder Moon -- will light up the night sky on July 10 and be at its ...

Now gleaming at magnitude minus 4.0, Venus in the coming weeks and months will ascend dramatically higher in the western sky and by New Year's Day it will be setting more nearly 4 hours after the sun.

Jupiter and Venus will appear very close together in the night sky on Wednesday, with the two planets set to pass each other in what’s known as a conjunction.

Right now, Venus is high in the west as darkness falls. It’s bright enough to be visible in a clear blue daytime sky if you know where to look.

Venus, the second planet from the sun, is taking center stage this morning. Named for the goddess of love, Venus is making itself easily seen in the night sky. It can be spotted by looking to the w… ...

Venus won't appear to cross the sun's disk on Aug. 13, instead passing just 7.7 degrees to its south and be just 0.9% illuminated, according to BBC Sky At Night magazine.

Venus now sits about 1.62 astronomical units from Earth, while Mercury is 0.92 astronomical units away. (One astronomical unit, or AU, is the average Earth-Sun distance.) ...

Venus will depart from our evening sky in late July and return to the morning sky. On September 19, Venus will achieve maximum brilliancy at magnitude -4.8. Now is the time to enjoy that gem in ...