“When it’s brightest, Venus appears as an eerily eye-catching beacon,“ EarthSky wrote. ”Many mistake it for a UFO. It’s ...

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

February is the best month to see Venus. But clouds, storms might make it hard to spot in Mississippi on Valentine's Day. How ...

It might be hard spotting Venus on Valentine's Day in Indiana because of cloudy weather. February, however, is still the best ...

It might be hard spotting Venus on Valentine's Day because of cloudy weather. February, however, is still the best month to see it.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

Well, Valentine's Day is upon us! Looking at the cosmic transits, astrologers forecast a fascinating Lover's Holiday, to say ...

Each planet takes a different length of time to orbit the sun: Venus, for instance, completes one orbit in 225 days, while Mercury zips around the star in 88 days and Saturn takes 29.4 years to ...

Five planets — Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury — will ... as it is the one closest to the sun and is obscured by the bright light. And it is easily mistaken for a star as it is ...

Although Jupiter and Mars have been dominating the eastern sky, there’s more here to view than just planets. Already 50° high an hour after sunset, the bright, magnitude 0.1 star Capella stands ...