Jupiter begins to relinquish its dominance of the evening sky while Venus commands attention from early morning skywatchers. Gradually, during May, Jupiter is relinquishing its dominance of the ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a conjunction) in the predawn sky. To make a new moon, you need to line up the sun, moon and Earth. From the ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed ...

Alongside a crescent moon ... All seven of Earth's planetary siblings dotted the night sky at once. And later this year in August, four planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn — will ...

where the sunlight reflected off of the Earth reaches the moon. The celestial interlude was preceded last week by a more whimsical astral phenomenon as the moon, Venus and Saturn put a smile ...