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

Venus is moving toward a dramatic finale in early 2025, when it will dazzle as the "evening star" after sunset. Here's when to catch it at its brilliant best.

Mysterious features on the surface of Venus might suggest that there is activity under its surface, scientists have suggested. Almost circular features on the surface might suggest that it has ...

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

On Jan. 10, Venus will arrive at its greatest eastern elongation — its greatest angular distance east of the sun. Just a few days later it will be setting almost four full hours after the sun.

Yet this week, in the Northern Hemisphere, Venus will be both, as the planet will be visible before sunrise and after sunset from March 18-21. Known as the dual visibility of Venus, this rare ...

Venus is the brightest point of light in the sky, shining at magnitude –4.2. To its upper left is the delicate crescent Moon, some 26 days old and 13 percent lit.

On the surface (you're welcome for the joke), Venus is not even close to being hospitable to life. But that's not the end of the story.

This is what it would be like to walk on the surface of Venus. The surface of Venus is comparable to the bottom of Earth’s oceans with one major difference: Venus has the hottest planetary ...

The surface of Venus is currently a sweltering furnace, with average temperatures of 867 degrees F, an atmosphere made of mostly CO 2, and a surface pressure about 92 times that of Earth's.

NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to making history as the closest any human-made object has ever been to the sun. Parker will use ...