Summer arrives this month and with it come long, sweltering days along with all-too-brief nights. But if you can dodge the fireflies and stock up on mosquito repellent, there’s still stargazing to be ...

Skywatchers are in for a spectacular celestial treat this June as Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets visible from ...

A planetary conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – sometimes more – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. Both Venus and Jupiter are making ...

The transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 offered a way to calculate the true size of the Solar System. Getting to the right ...

Artist’s impression of GJ 1214 b passing in front of its host star. The “transit method” allows astronomers to study an exoplanet by seeing which wavelengths of light dim when the star’s light passes ...

The Soviet Union became obsessed with Venus, repeatedly sending missions into one of the most hostile environments in the ...

One of the weirdest places in our Solar System may actually be a great place to search for alien life: the skies of Venus. We don’t have evidence of life — or even indisputable evidence that life ...