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 ...

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.

Some observers at the University of Alaska, Anchorage gathered on a campus rooftop, peering at Venus through special filtered glasses and telescopes. "It's not really spectacular when you're ...

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

Mars and brilliant Venus make their closest approach in the dawn sky on November 3, allowing a rare opportunity for skygazers to see both in a telescope at the same time. The pair don't have this ...

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 ...

There is an art to photographing major solar events like the 2012 transit of Venus across the sun on June 5-6, 2012. Here's a look at how to snap effective sun photos with telescopes, cameras and ...