As well as some of the darkest skies on the U.S. East Coast, it's also the nation's southernmost point. At 24.5 degrees north ...

A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky ...

Venus has been slowly getting closer to the sun and will pass roughly between Earth and our star this weekend — something astronomers call "inferior conjunction." ...

Created from debris trails from Halley’s Comet, the eta Aquariids can be seen from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres ...