A planetary conjunction takes place when two or more planets seem to align closely in the sky as viewed from Earth, despite ...

The Perseid meteor shower may be an annual event for Earth, but the comet responsible for the meteors hasn’t been near our planet in decades. NASA says: "The meteors are debris ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

This week, skygazers have two celestial events to be excited about, with a Jupiter-Venus planetary conjunction and the Perseid meteor shower peak.

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in our solar system, are about to make their closest approach during their August ...