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

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

One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn sky this weekend and will be joined by the moon on Monday morning. The star ...

A controversial new study claims that a ‘hostile’ alien spacecraft could attempt to attack Earth in November. Scientists say ...

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

Do asteroids near Venus pose a threat to Earth? Because they're at least 460 feet wide, the Venusian space rocks are large enough to be considered "city killers" – asteroids capable of doing ...

See the moon, Venus and Aldebaran form a celestial triangle in the predawn hours. On July 21, the trio will appear closest to one another as depicted in the graphic above.

Venus currently hosts 20 known co-orbitals, including "Trojan" asteroids and the peculiar quasi-moon Zoozve. These objects, each exceeding 460 feet in diameter, could devastate urban areas if they ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 27 The Moon passes 3° north of Mercury at 2 A.M. EDT. By evening the two are visible in the western sky, roughly 8° high an ...