Just as the Perseid meteor shower approaches its peak, two luminous planets are getting in on the night-sky action. If you want to see the conjunction, you'll have to either stay out late or get up ...

LOS ANGELES -- Jupiter and Venus appear to be very close together in the night sky, with the two planets passing each other in what's known as a conjunction. Jupiter appears to be shifting westward, ...

It could be the most spectacular heavenly sight of 2025. I’m talking about the close conjunction (pairing) of the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter. The planets will linger in the dawn sky for ...

Have you ever wondered why you fall in love the way you do? According to astrology, the planets in our solar system play a ...

Skywatchers who spotted the Jupiter-Venus conjunction on Aug. 12 are in for a dazzling display in the night sky through the end of August, with a "planet parade" building in the eastern sky, with ...

At 4:00 AM EDT, a conjunction occurs with Venus (magnitude -4.0) passing 0.9° south of Jupiter (magnitude -1.9) in the constellation Gemini, easily visible to the unaided eye approximately 7° above ...

February might be our shortest month, but it’s far from bleak. The winter night sky will be beckoning us to look up all month long. In January, we were treated to a “Planet Parade” of four bright ...

Stargazers will have the opportunity to view as many as seven planets in the night sky this month during an event that's sometimes called a "parade of planets" because the celestial bodies appear to ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Jupiter and Venus are prominent in the pre-dawn sky, rising at approximately 1:30 AM and 4:15 AM local daylight time, respectively. Jupiter's magnitude is -2.0, significantly brighter than Pollux ...

"Without it, we might not have Earth as we know it."Using computer simulations, Izidoro and his colleagues modeled how ...

Two planets most associated with luck are Jupiter and Venus, and they bring abundance in just the right way this month.