Astronomers are making a surprising breakthrough in the study of Venus, as new simulations suggest there may be a hidden family of asteroids quietly orbiting the Sun alongside the planet. This ...

Venus reaches its point of greatest western elongation on June 1, at which time the dazzling 'morning star' will be at its most distant point from the sun in Earth's sky during its pre-dawn apparition ...

Radio waves travel fast, and they can bounce, too. If you are able to operate a 25-meter dish, a transmitter, a solid software-defined radio, and an atomic clock, the answer is: yes, they can go all ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

Should your local weather forecast suggest that Friday morning — the start of the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend — will be fair and clear, it will be well worth setting your alarm clock to awaken you ...

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Good news everyone! The first week of April will be the perfect time to see several planets and famous stars in the night sky, according to Sky & Telescope. Keep your binoculars and telescope handy ...

A sky event on November 2 positions Neptune between Saturn and the Moon. Venus is observable in the morning sky, located to the left of Spica (Virgo’s brightest star), approximately one hour before ...

A celestial conjunction featuring the moon, Venus, and the star Regulus will be visible on Friday, Sept. 19. This event will be bright enough to be seen without a telescope, though clouds could ...

This past summer I had the opportunity to operate the world’s largest single-dish telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Before my current position as a postdoctoral researcher at the ...

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Cejka Planetarium in John J. and Char Kopchick Hall will present three programs during the spring semester: “Back to Venus” today, Telescope Display and Full Moon ...