Venus reaches its point of greatest western elongation on June 1, at which time the dazzling 'morning star' will be at its ...

If you're tired of lugging your massive telescope to dark sky sites to observe the night sky, these small telescopes are much more portable and lightweight.

Once Venus sets, Saturn rules the night — until ... the orb of Saturn girdled by its spectacular ring system. Even a 60mm telescope can show Saturn’s rings. Casual viewing shows there ...

Venus reaches its greatest western elongation (46°) from the Sun at midnight EDT. Earth’s sister planet is now visible in the ...

Perpetual clouds that shroud the planet reflect lots of sunlight making Venus very bright in the night sky. But those same unbroken clouds prevent telescope observations of the surface of Venus.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 30The crescent Moon lies in Cancer this evening, just a few ...

After he initially caught sight of Venus out his window, Mr. Bogardus checked it out with his 60-mm. refracting telescope, and found Venus to be "a very thin crescent, as thin as you might find in ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are lining ... seeing five is rare, according to Sky & Telescope. The planets are lining up in their natural order from the Sun, which is also remarkable ...

Photographing Tuesday's historic Venus transit of the sun is special enough on its own, but one space photographer managed to get NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in the frame as well. Venus crossed ...

An aircraft-borne telescope could not find signs of a compound possibly linked to biological activity during observations of Venus' atmosphere. The discovery of a potential signal indicating the ...

Venus comes closer to us than any other planet. This Nov. 9, 2021, picture made through the author's 14-inch telescope shows the planet Venus and its phase. In the coming months, the phase of ...