Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Venus has phases just like the moon. Before and after the conjunction, Venus looks like a thin crescent — though only telescopes can see it. Those looking for signs of the transition can watch Venus ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

The total solar eclipse has passed, but there's more to see in the sky. The "devil comet" is passing ... The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on June 2, when it will be about 144 ...

The first two weeks of March provide a great opportunity to sight four bright naked-eye planets in the early evening sky. Low toward ... dim as it pulls away from Earth. The only planet that ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments.

Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system, the seven planets will fall within Earth’s line of sight at sunset, and will not be obscured by the sun. Viewed from above the solar system ...

The ecliptic is also the reason that we on Earth sometimes observe planets appearing to approach closely to each other in the sky "while they ... reaches its greatest separation from the sun.

After separation ... the backdrop of a darkened sky. Sunrise was at 6:55 a.m. Friday in Los Angeles. SpaceX has a Starlink constellation of satellites orbiting Earth about 340 miles up, shuttled ...