This month, skywatchers will be able to watch another kind of doubleheader, as Mercury and Venus double up in the evening sky! […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 5°F.

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

Named Zoozve, Venus' quasi-moon is the first of its kind to be discovered orbiting the Sun near a major planet and has most ...

According to BBC, Mercury is closest to the Sun, orbiting between 46 and 69 million kilometres away. Photo Credit: NASA Mercury's surface temperature can reach a scorching 430°C under the full Sun.

Tasked to look at Earth, Japan's Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully repurposed to observe changes in Venus' cloud-top ...

Because Venus and Mercury are way more distant than the moon, a telescope is needed to see the phases. Right now Venus is showing us a “half moon” phase with about 50% of the planet in ...

It says inside Venus throughout its entire orbit, and even comes close to the orbit of Mercury at some points. It has one of the shortest years of any asteroid discovered so far, completing an ...

And as of June 2023, Saturn has 146 moons orbiting it, including Enceladus and Titan. ... Mercury is followed by Venus, Earth and Mars, all rocky planets. Earth’s largest neighbor, ...