Venus currently rises in the east at 3:35 a.m. local daylight time. The eerie, low glimmering of Venus is a harbinger of daybreak, which begins exactly at that same time. In a telescope, Venus's ...

July's full moon -- known as the Buck Moon or the Thunder Moon -- will light up the night sky on July 10 and be at its ...

Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

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Scientists discovered unexpected images of Venus in the background of Earth's weather satellite photos, enabling them to ...

Skywatchers in central Wisconsin can expect a stunning week ahead, with planetary pairings, moon phases and celestial ...

Tasked to look at Earth, Japan's Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully repurposed to observe changes in Venus' cloud-top ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.