As Venus sinks deeper with each passing night, here's when you can view it in the evening sky in the coming weeks.

By the end of the first week of October, Venus will have slipped from the evening sky altogether. It reaches inferior conjunction on Oct. 24, passing about 6 degrees south of the sun. Around that time ...

September’s sky features brilliant Venus, the Milky Way’s hazy center, and the seasonal turning point of the equinox. The ...

On the 1st, Venus, accompanied by the much fainter true star Spica to its right, sets 1½ hours after sunset, or 9 about p.m.

Venus, the second planet from the Sun, turns on its axis so slowly that a full rotation takes longer than the time it needs ...

Venus will be dancing. Stargazers need not mourn the end of summer just yet — the season is ending with a celestial ...

Saturn can be seen without optical equipment, making it the easier planet to spot. Neptune is much more difficult. At around ...

Earth's satellite skims through several constellations, meeting up with planets and stars in the sky this week.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. On Saturday, Sept. 26, the full “Harvest Moon” will rise ...

NASA researchers are developing a hybrid observatory that would pair a giant telescope on Earth with a 99-meter starshade ...

I read recently that the ancient Celtic people associated the goddess with all forms of water: streams, rivers, lakes, rain, the ocean and more. This got me thinking about our current drought — and ...

Friday, August 28Friday opens with a deep partial lunar eclipse - the Full Moon occurs at 12:19 A.M. EDT, just six minutes ...