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The innermost planets straddle nighttime, with Mercury in the evening and the greatest western elongation of Venus in the ...

There are plenty of common knowledge facts we don't realize we don’t know until someone points them out. For instance, ask ...

Strauss' "Blue Danube" is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth.

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

New research suggests that our entire solar system is vulnerable to being thrown into chaos by a distant star.

A minimum of three 'city-killer' asteroids have been spotted near Venus, and they could strike Earth in the next few weeks ...

Monthly horoscopes for June 2025 are here, and this month is a whole different element from what we experienced in May. This ...

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

NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and ...

A trio of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Université de Lyon, and Arizona State University, respectively ...