Skywatchers will get two special treats during the next 10 days, starting with two planets lining up very close to each other and shining brightly Tuesday night. Venus and Jupiter are the brightest ...

Astronomers have spent years searching for a possible hidden giant planet far beyond Neptune. Unusual orbits among distant Kuiper Belt objects have fueled the Planet Nine theory, but recent ...

A rare celestial event will feature Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury appearing close together in the June sky. Venus and Jupiter will first appear together in a conjunction starting Tuesday, June 9.

Venus, often referred to as the "evening star," will be the brighter of the two planets and should be easy to spot shortly after sunset. The conjunction of Venus and Jupiter will continue through June ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

The Solar System is one of the comforting constants of human existence. No matter what else we have going on, the planets will continue to whirl about the Sun, making predictable patterns in the sky, ...