Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

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June’s best star watching happens in the daytime, as Venus makes a rare transit across the face of the sun. Try not to miss it; this is the last transit of Venus until December 2117. The ...

From Earth’s point of view, Venus disappeared behind the sun in March and has since been gradually re-emerging from its glare. Earth takes 365 days to orbit the sun, but Venus only 227.

February’s night sky gives us the bright trio of Mars, Jupiter and Venus, according to NASA skywatch experts. “Venus blazes ...

When someone mentions a “doubleheader,” we usually think of two baseball games played back-to-back by the same pair of teams. To railroad employees, the word refers to a train pulled by two ...

“We needed nine flybys (one at Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury) to slow down our spacecraft and bring it into a good position to enter the orbit of Mercury.” Sequence of 89 images ...

Venus and Saturn will appear to be snuggling ... and it represents the plane of the solar system in which the planets orbit around the Sun,” NASA staff said in a recent blog.