The week ahead will see a meeting of two bright planets as Venus and Jupiter make for a dazzling display in the evening sky ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the ...

Next week, the two brightest planets in the sky—Venus and Jupiter—will appear to meet. They will draw closest around June 8 ...

A close conjunction of the two brightest planets in the night sky will take place over several evenings, with the best time ...

The month also means the arrival of numerous astronomical events, from a strawberry moon and meteors to a miniature planet ...

The bright planets will appear within a pinkie width of each other this June—their closest alignment until 2028.

Ancient Greek astronomers likely observed Uranus as a star, but limited tools and geocentric views kept them from recognizing ...

How does the planet Venus resurface itself? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: ...

Researchers have developed the Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM) to assess which planets can maintain ...

A rare astronomical spectacle is set to unfold this June as the Moon passes in front of Venus, creating a dramatic ...