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

Right now, Venus is high in the west as darkness falls. It’s bright enough to be visible in a clear blue daytime sky if you know where to look.

When Venus appears as a full or a nearly fully illuminated disk, it appears rather small in angular size through telescopes. That's because Venus is on the other side of the sun as viewed from ...

July's full moon -- known as the Buck Moon or the Thunder Moon -- will light up the night sky on July 10 and be at its ...

Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus ...

Venus currently rises in the east at 3:35 a.m. local daylight time. The eerie, low glimmering of Venus is a harbinger of daybreak, which begins exactly at that same time. In a telescope, Venus's ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

Because Venus and Mercury are way more distant than the moon, a telescope is needed to see the phases. Right now Venus is showing us a “half moon” phase with about 50% of the planet in ...

In fact, most of the time Venus is in a half phase or appears as a crescent under a telescope. Check the latest weather forecast for the current conditions tonight.

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it moves away from Earth.

Researchers’ detection of two gases, phosphine and ammonia, in the clouds of Venus raises speculation about possible life forms in the planet’s atmosphere.