The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.
A strange, gargantuan wall of acid-filled clouds on our neighboring planet Venus has been spotted by a hobbyist astronomer. This structure, known as the Venus Cloud Discontinuity, is around 5,000 ...
Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, crawls through a day that outlasts its year, and even changes its spin rate in ...
This illustration of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior ...
A slim crescent moon, the planet Venus, and the star Regulus will appear close together in the eastern sky before dawn on Friday, September 19. Binoculars or a small telescope can enhance the view, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you have yet to see late summer’s “planet parade,” this ...
February ends with a treat for sky-gazers: a parade of seven planets across the night sky, including Mercury, Uranus and Neptune alongside typically bright planets such as Mars, Venus, Jupiter and ...