Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction this weekend, appearing side by side in the night sky during January's post-sunset ...

Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet that recently lit up night skies for the first time in millennia might be falling apart after ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours ...

Photographer Josh Durry captured a rare image of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which orbits the sun every 160,000 years, on Jan.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13—and this may have changed it ...

It last passed nearby 180,000 years ago and the next few nights could be your last chance to ever see it as it drifts over ...

However, a 2011 study concluded that this idea is unlikely, because the comet strikes in recorded history ... sent several uncrewed missions to study Venus. Ten of these Venera probes landed ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...

The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph aboard the Soho spacecraft captured the view of the comet as it flew with a giant tail that kept burning from the intense heat of the Sun.