It’s hard to miss the planet Venus. Unless the moon is up, this second planet from the sun can be the brightest object in the night sky. Right now, Venus is high in the west as darkness falls. It’s ...

The planets of the solar system orbit the sun in a complex and ever-shifting ballet, which can see them appear as glorious ...

Observing the phases of Venus helped Galileo conclude that planets in our solar system orbit the sun, not the Earth. Credit: Creators.com illustration Ask your friends and neighbors, and most will ...

Venus is currently observable in the early-morning eastern sky, rising around 5 A.M. local daylight time, positioned initially in far eastern Leo before transitioning into western Virgo. Exhibiting a ...

Because Venus lies inside Earth’s orbit around the sun, viewing it through a telescope or binoculars can show different phases of the planet. During April, the phase is closer to “full” or a gibbous ...

Just as the Perseid meteor shower approaches its peak, two luminous planets are getting in on the night-sky action. Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky, will meet in a conjunction ...

In this photo taken on Friday, Oct. 21 by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Venus shines very close to the blazing sun and its plume-like corona, which are hidden by an opaque disk to ...