The new moon occurs Aug. 4, at 7:13 a.m. EDT (0113 UTC). In the days following the new moon, our satellite will make a close pass to Venus; after that Venus and Mercury will be close together ...

Since it orbits the Sun every 88 days, the tiny planet Mercury pings briefly into, then back out, the pre-dawn and post-sunset night sky. It rarely appears to get far from the Sun.

The Venus sun conjunction marks the halfway point between Venus's last and upcoming retrogrades, ... Mercury in Pisces, ... Like a new moon, when Venus and the sun align, ...

The new moon occurs on June 25. A day later, Mercury reaches its highest point ... the sky measured eastward from the point where the sun crosses the celestial equator. This position is also called a ...

The Venus sun conjunction marks the halfway point between Venus's last and upcoming retrogrades, and asks you to note how you've grown. Photo: Getty Images/Westend61 Published Mar 21, 2021 ...

Explore the moon and Venus' conjunction, along with the intricacies of astronomy, astrology and the profound connection between humanity and the cosmos.

Mercury, Venus and Mars — the other three rocky planets in the solar system — will be closely grouped with a slender waxing gibbous crescent moon in the early-evening western night sky from ...

Venus, the second planet from the sun and the sixth largest in our solar system, is due for its next inferior conjunction overnight between Saturday and Sunday.For stargazers in the Northern ...

Venus now sits about 1.62 astronomical units from Earth, while Mercury is 0.92 astronomical units away. (One astronomical unit, or AU, is the average Earth-Sun distance.) ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only around every eight years, according to EarthSky. Typically, Venus ...

2nd: Moon near bright star Regulus in Leo the Lion in the evening sky.. 6th: Last quarter Moon.. 9th and 10th: Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn form a triangle low in the west right after sunset ...

Mercury, also the closest planet to the sun, will have a magnitude of -0.8 during the conjunction, while the moon will have a magnitude of -8.3. The minus prefix before both objects indicates a ...