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An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...
April’s planetary parade has fewer planets. Only four will line up: Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. April's parade of ...
Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...
The crescent moon will be the centerpiece of April's final astronomical event as it bunches up with Venus, Saturn and Mercury in the ... Don Pettit returns to Earth on 70th birthday April 20 ...
Just as we see the moon as a crescent as it orbits Earth, we see the inner planets — Venus and Mercury — as crescents as they orbit the sun. Check back a month later, on May 24, and Venus will ...
Something quite out of the ordinary has been happening in the sky. Ever since Sunday, April 12, Mercury, Venus, and Saturn have been in a visible planetary alignment—aka when multiple planets ...