Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...

Venus, often called Earth’s twisted sister, hides a world of crushing pressure, scorching temperatures, and thick clouds of ...

Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting ...

In 2020, scientists detected phosphine gas on Venus, a molecule linked to microbial life on Earth. New missions funded by ...

Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn ...

When the moon completes the first quarter of its journey around Earth this morning at 5:41 a.m. Its 90-degree angle between ...

Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...

Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.

For many years astronomers have mused about the possibility of putting radio telescopes on the Moon. Considering the extreme ...