Seven planets are on display in the night sky at the end of February, but some will be harder to spot than others. Here’s ...

When we have five or more planets filing into a small sky area, an alignment is upgraded to parade status. Parade is not an ...

As Venus hurtles toward its inferior conjunction with the Sun on March 22, astronomers are capturing a rare glimpse of its ...

Venus will gain "maximum brilliance" on Valentine's Day this year, according to both Space.com and EarthSky, a stargazing and astronomical website. After mid-February, Venus won't appear as bright in ...

This Friday, all seven planets will be in the night sky for a brief period. Join the cosmic spectacle and learn where to look ...

On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! Venera 14 launched just five days after its ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, Mercury will join the fun, with all seven of our planetary neighbors visible ...

Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.

Despite the name, a planetary alignment isn’t when the planets get in a row, it’s when a fair few gather on one side of the Sun. A planetary parade, meanwhile, describes them all being visible in the ...

Remarkable views of Venus are available this month. The first two weeks of March provide a great opportunity to sight four bright naked-eye planets in the early evening sky. Low toward the west ...

What happens when Venus turns retrograde is actually pretty fascinating. Every 18 months, the hottest planet in the solar ...