The bright morning star Venus, moving quickly through Taurus, hangs in the predawn sky below the Seven Sisters open cluster.

When Venus appears as a full or a nearly fully illuminated disk, it appears rather small in angular size through telescopes.

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

After putting on a great show in our evening sky since the fall of 2024, dazzling Venus puts on a spectacular showing for early morning risers for the balance of 2025.

This Nov. 9, 2021, picture made through the author's 14-inch telescope shows the planet Venus and its phase. In the coming months, the phase of Venus will appear to shrink while the apparent ...

The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by ...

The VERVE mission seeks to investigate the presence of bacterial life floating in the heavy cloud cover on Venus up close.

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

The brightest planets in the sky are coming together just after sunset on March 1. Here’s how to observe them, and you don’t even need a telescope.