For North Americans, this is an eye-catching sight, visible even from brightly lit cities.

Venus reaches its greatest western elongation (46°) from the Sun at midnight EDT. Earth’s sister planet is now visible in the ...

It was a race against the rising sun as astrophotographer Josh Dury captured a fleeting cosmic moment before dawn’s light ...

Earth’s sister planet reaches greatest western elongation and dichotomy as the waxing Moon slides along the ecliptic in the ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

June kicks off as the sixth month of the calendar year, with the summer solstice occurring mid-month, marking the start of a ...

Kick-start your Memorial Day weekend in the early morning of May 23, when you can spot a celestial alignment of the moon between Venus and Saturn.

Venus could be hiding asteroids that would be deadly if they hit Earth, some experts say. A new study published in the ...

This month's full moon will tell Iowans it's time to get back in their gardens. May marks the annual flower moon, but it has also been called the planting moon or the budding moon. Here's what you ...