With a telescope, you'll see that Venus may be bright but it is only showing off a crescent phase some 26 percent lit. Nonetheless, its full disk stretches a hefty 39" - that's a larger angular size ...

Venus is the third brightest object in the sky, dimmer only than the moon and the sun, but this weekend, it gets just about as bright as it ever can. According to EarthSky, Venus will reach ...

The solar system's smallest planet is quickly approaching superior conjunction, so catch it in the morning sky while you can.

Venus is the dazzlingly bright Morning Star for this spring and summer. Look for it low in the east. It attained its greatest brilliancy (magnitude -4.7) on April 27, but it is practically at that ...

A Mother's Day meteor seen shooting across the night sky on Sunday surprised early risers in Western Australia who witnessed ...

Friday, May 2, presents a perfect opportunity to catch the mighty ice giant Neptune close to the planets Saturn and Venus in ...

The Red Planet will meet a beautiful star cluster called the Beehive on Friday (May 2). Also known as M44, the cluster will ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

What are the evening star and the morning star? Here's what you need to know about the evening star and the morning star.

As May commences, Jupiter, resembling a luminous golden star within the constellation Taurus, shines high above the western ...

The predawn morning sky is now as interesting as the evening sky with super-bright Venus and medium-bright Saturn gracing the ...

With a telescope, you’ll see that Venus may be bright but it is only showing off a crescent phase some 26 percent lit. Nonetheless, its full disk stretches a hefty 39” — that’s a larger ...