Astronomers have observed the merging of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719, offering insights into the future collision of the ...

Venus, Earth’s closest planetary neighbor is one of the most extreme and hostile environments in the Solar System. With ...

Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...

It’s a sight similar to the one those ancient astronomers got, but we also get a bonus: the mess of dust and gas left over by that exploding star, M1, which tonight sits just 0.5° north of Venus.

Of course, what we are seeing is an illusion of perspective. On this particular morning, the moon is 225,700 miles (363,300 km) from Earth, while Venus is 259 times more distant at 58.5 million ...

Asteroids around Venus, shown in the background above during a 2012 transit, are difficult to track because they fall inside Earth's orbit and are obscured by the sun's glare.

Good things don’t come in threes. Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we ...

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Although their orbits keep them relatively stable with Venus, some still pass within 0.05 astronomical units of Earth's orbit.