One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn ...

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

Right now, Venus is high in the west as darkness falls. It’s bright enough to be visible in a clear blue daytime sky if you know where to look.

Now, with the moon gone from the scene, it’s a great opportunity to check out Venus with a small telescope. My first view of Venus through a scope came some 60 years ago.

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 ...

In 1987, Venus and the moon aligned for the camera of Victor Rogus as he stood — trespassed, really — in a farmer's cornfield outside Chicago.

After reaching its high point in terms of morning visibility in mid-July, Venus will start a long, slow slide back toward the sun, rising about 1.7 minutes later each morning from July 21 through ...

Venus, Jupiter conjunction to dazzle night skies in March: ... But at about 5,700 light years away, the Eagle Nebula is not easy to spot through a backyard telescope. In 1995, ...

Bright planets are great targets for beginning telescope owners, because they’re both easy to spot and they change visibly as they orbit. In a telescope Venus, currently visible as the ...

Through a telescope, you’ll see that Venus’ 15″-wide disk is 74 percent lit, its eastern half in deep shadow. Nearby, the Pleiades are best viewed at low power through binoculars or even ...

On June 5th in North and Central America, and June 6th in Asia, Australia, and most of Europe, the planet Venus will cross in front of the Sun. This will be only the eighth such transit of Venus si… ...