A recent paper suggests that if astrobiologists want to make an educated guess about what life on Venus might look like, they ...

These conjunctions aren't rare, but they get rarer with each planet added to the chain. For example, the three innermost ...

An alignment of seven planets will be visible in Friday's evening sky. Here's when and where to view the celestial phenomenon ...

Seven planets are on display in the night sky at the end of February, but some will be harder to spot than others. Here’s what you need to know to catch a glimpse.

Venus, the second planet from the sun and Earth’s neighbor, is typically the first star seen in the evening and the last star seen at night. It’s also the third brightest object in Earth’s ...

Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.

Neptune, Venus and Saturn are all low in the west, so set soon after sunset. Earth’s rotates from west to east, so stars and planets appear to rise from below the eastern horizon and set below ...

As Venus' orbit around the Sun brings it closer to Earth, stargazers will be privy to a spectacular view of the planet. Venus is permanently shrouded in thick, toxic clouds of sulfuric acid ...