Friday, May 2, presents a perfect opportunity to catch the mighty ice giant Neptune close to the planets Saturn and Venus in ...

The spacecraft was designed to survive falling through Venus's atmosphere. 53 years after launch, it's coming back.

Spotted thanks to a fleeting light distortion in 2011, a mysterious duo — a tiny star and its hefty companion — has turned ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Discover the planet that has the most moons. This planet is a ringed giant and the second largest in the solar system.

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

Astronomy enthusiasts have plenty of reasons to be excited this April, as the month is packed with stunning celestial events.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Texas stargazers can catch a rare "smiley face" in the sky on Friday, April 25. Venus, Saturn and the Moon will create the ...