As Venus and Mercury exit the stage, a few remnants of the "planetary parade" will be visible after sunset. With Saturn ...

Venus is a Victim of a Rampant Greenhouse Effect Venus's atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse ...

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

Yes, you can see Venus without a telescope; it shines like a beacon. According to NASA, Venus is the third brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon. That depends on whether it's morning or ...

It’s also the third brightest object in Earth’s night sky, behind the moon and the sun, according to EarthSky. But on Sunday, Feb. 16, Venus is going to appear at its brightest point at a ...

While February’s grand planetary parade might be behind us, March will still ... because neither is tilted in relation to the sun. Historically, Venus was sometimes called the “morning star”.

By the time March gets underway, Mercury, Saturn and Neptune will have drifted too close to the sun to be readily visible with Venus not far behind, leaving Jupiter, Mars and Uranus to populate ...

In rare events, all the planets will line up such that they all appear in our night sky together along the ecliptic, the path traced by the Sun. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all ...

It’s the week between eclipses! It’s the week of the Spring Equinox! It’s the halfway point of Venus retrograde! A dreamy, ...