With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

When you take a look deep into the night sky, Venus might look like it's noticeably yellow. Here's the science behind why it appears that way.

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...

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

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

Look to the southwest sky after sunset on Saturday, as the sliver of a waxing crescent moon nears bright Venus with Saturn ...

The best time to see the planets is after dusk on a clear night in a spot that is away from city lights and other forms of light pollution. Venus is typically the easiest to spot in the ...

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 ...