Astronomy is a lovely undertaking by day or by night, but the sky has delights to offer in the between times as well. When ...

Venus may be Earth's celestial twin in a lot of ways, but it has some pretty notable differences. Its moon situation, in ...

gets hundreds of times hotter the farther it stretches from the sun’s surface. Indeed, the probe has already started unraveling some of these puzzles. Gravity assists from Venus have been ...

Parker is attempting to be the closest a human-made object has been to the sun. 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 ...

In that maneuver, the probe will fly around Venus, leveraging the gravitational force the planet exerts on the spacecraft to launch itself towards the Sun. Gravity assists are a handy tool for ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave," NASA said.

What is that bright star after sunset? It’s Venus—and it's back in the evening sky. Aside from the sun and moon, there is no brighter object in the sky than the second planet from the sun.

On Wednesday (Nov. 6), NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus— the spacecraft's final maneuver ...

Instruments aboard robotic landers have measured seismicity on the moon and Mars, helping researchers learn about the inner ...

As a result, the moon appears to move much more rapidly against the background stars than Venus. Because of this rapid movement, when the sun sets on the following (Tuesday) evening, the ...

Now it’s the turn of Venus to reach its “greatest elongation east” as it appears to reach 47º from the Sun as seen from Earth. You’ll be able to see it shining very brightly in the ...

When you read this article, I hope you're in a cozy, warm home in the early evening, looking out a west-facing window. If the ...