Venus, our planet of wealth and worth, will be double dipping and twice shining this week as it moonlights and daybreaks as both the morning and evening star.

Venus will plummet dramatically toward its inferior conjunction on March 22, when it passes 8.4 degrees north of the sun. For a few days around this date, we can try spotting Venus in bright ...

Venus goes retrograde roughly every two years for a period of several weeks, transitioning in visibility from being an evening star to a morning star. Venus is named for the Roman goddess of love ...

Venus, by contrast, is 27 degrees high in the ... Dubhe and Merak point to Polaris, the North Star and brightest star in Ursa Minor, the Little Bear. Using those same "pointers" one can go in ...

Lord Tennyson’s poem “Crossing the Bar” is not really a star but the planet Venus when it is visible for a while after sunset. And Venus is now at its almost unbelievably brightest at a ...