Jupiter reaches opposition once a year, when Earth passes directly between it and the Sun, creating the best possible viewing ...

Venus and Mars will cazimi on Jan. 6 and Jan. 9, presenting you with a much-needed reset in your personal and professional ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

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Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty of reasons to ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Venus has been stealing the twilight show, glowing so fiercely that it can look like a misplaced aircraft or a distant beacon ...

In the predawn darkness, a single bright light rising in the east has captured human imagination for millennia. In 1599, the Lutheran pastor Philippe Nicolai shaped that image into his chorale “How ...

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Hatsune Miku is being retired. After more than a decade in orbit, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft has officially gone silent. The mission—designed to study Venus’s atmosphere—was declared complete by JAXA ...

SÃO PAULO — Scientists have spotted a major blind spot in how we watch for dangerous asteroids. New research shows that space rocks orbiting near Venus stay hidden from Earth’s telescopes, and some ...