A quick, beginner's guide to observing Venus and Jupiter – and Mercury – this weekend.
The transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 offered a way to calculate the true size of the Solar System. Getting to the right ...
Three planets, two stars and one moon create a spectacular June sky show.
The bright planets will appear within a pinkie width of each other this June—their closest alignment until 2028.
A spectacular recent find points towards life on another planet in our solar system. NASA scientists presented a study that Venus could have been a habitable planet two or three billion years ago with ...
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 surface in ...
Skywatchers across Canada can compare for themselves when both planets appear side by side in the evening sky next week. For ...
In June 2012, Hinode probe (of JAXA and NASA), dedicated to the study of the Sun, observed the planet Venus transiting in front of our star. In the next decade, researchers will start probing the ...