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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

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

Wausau Pilot & Review Stargazers in central Wisconsin have plenty of celestial sights to enjoy this week, including bright ...

Part of a spacecraft that has been stuck in orbit for 53 years is due to reenter Earth’s atmosphere around May 10 and could ...

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 ...