A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have ...

Typically, Venus orbits closer to the sun than Earth. Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them. A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side ...

A new threat looms as scientists warn of dangerous asteroids near Venus, hidden from Earth's telescopes by the Sun's glare.

Venus reaches its greatest western elongation (46°) from the Sun at midnight EDT. Earth's sister planet is now visible in the ...

Venus was at inferior conjunction on Aug. 13, in line between the Earth and the sun. Now it is swinging away from that line, speeding ahead of the Earth in its faster orbit. In fact, Venus has ...

Remember of course, that from Earth, Venus appears most dazzling when it's roughly one-quarter illuminated; a crescent shape seen at a distance of about 40 million miles (64 million km). But right ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

At other times it travels leftward from the setting sun, putting it low in the sky and forcing us to view it through the obscuring atmosphere. So next year Venus will be a bit of a dud, as it has been ...

Here’s how it works. You may have noticed in recent weeks that the planet Venus has slipped from the post-sunset sky, slimming into a crescent shape as it drops from view. Its reign as the ...

A false-color view of Venus taken by Japan’s Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter in 2018.Credit...PLANET-C Project Team/JAXA Supported by By Kenneth Chang and Shannon Stirone A team of astronomers ...

A slender crescent moon, will form a spectacular pair with the brilliant planet Venus during the dawn morning hours of May 23.

There is no question that countless numbers of people will be watching the transit of Venus on Tuesday; a very striking celestial phenomenon that has been seen only once in the last 129 years and ...