If you’ve looked up at the night sky in the last week or so, you may have noticed two bright objects moving steadily closer together. The objects you’re seeing aren’t stray high-altitude balloons or ...

Anyone out under the stars in the early evening lately likely cannot help but notice two brilliant objects dominating the western sky: the planets Venus and Jupiter. Venus, because it is closer to the ...

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

There’s love in the night sky. Jupiter and Venus are set to share a “cosmic kiss” Thursday night as they appear side by side. The two planets crossed paths shortly after sunset Wednesday night as ...

Jupiter and Venus will share a rare 'cosmic kiss' tonight, as the two planets appear side by side in the night sky. They will come within about half a degree of each other – roughly one full moon's ...

The month of March kicks off with a close conjunction of two bright naked-eye planets: Venus and Jupiter. The pair will appear closest for U.S. observers in the evening sky on March 1, leading up to ...

Venus and Jupiter will approach each other in the night sky on Wednesday (March 1) during a meeting of solar system record breakers, the hottest planet and the largest. During the close approach ...

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