Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by ...

Venus: Venus dazzles in the eastern sky before sunrise, shining brightly for a couple of hours each morning. It’s joined by ...

Venus shines as the "Morning Star," reaching its peak in the east-northeast sky. Look 30 mins before sunrisefor the best view ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

Shining brighter than magnitude –4.0 this month, Venus outshines every other celestial object except for the Sun and Moon. The planet moves eastward relative to the background stars during June.

After putting on a great show in our evening sky since the fall of 2024, dazzling Venus puts on a spectacular showing for early morning risers for the balance of 2025.

Every so often, Venus has a moment of brilliancy and, this February, the planet has chosen a rather apt date to reach its peak brightness. On Valentine’s Day (February 14), the planet will ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

A distant star system offers hope that our planet will keep spinning, even after the Sun expands into a red giant.

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now - showing it is possible our ...