I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line ... the sun are directly opposite each other with Earth in between. This celestial event happens about every ...

"Exploring the clouds, say by balloon, can be done with technology that's ready today," Byrne told Space.com. "We could ...

Jupiter and Mars will also be visible in the night ... by 875 million miles — about eight times the distance between Venus and Earth. Although no equipment is required to see the conjunction ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

Venus and Saturn are currently in conjunction, meaning the planets appear close together in the night sky from Earth. These two planets are visible in the southwest sky. Mars is currently at ...

All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line up and be bright ... That's when a planet and the sun are directly opposite each other with Earth in between. This ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of our Solar System. The planet sizes tested were 1 percent of Earth's mass, ...

It's easy to forget we're standing on one of the best viewing platforms in the solar system – Planet Earth ... night's sky – Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.

Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a ...