The nights surrounding the new moon on June 14 are the perfect time to hunt for planets and sparkling constellations in the ...

Mercury will appear farthest from the sun in its current evening apparition on June 15.

Venus rotates in the opposite direction from nearly every other planet in the solar system, and that single fact flips the ...

After last week’s close encounter between Jupiter and Venus in the evening sky, there’s another lovely spectacle this week as the Moon and Mercury join the celestial party.

Venus takes about 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation, and it does so in the opposite direction from nearly every ...