The Latest Breaking News from Venus

Venus is moving toward a dramatic finale in early 2025, when it will dazzle as the "evening star" after sunset. Here's when to catch it at its brilliant best.

Here are the best lunar events to see in 2025, including the Major Lunar Standstill, eclipses, occultations and conjunctions involving the moon.

December 2024 will see a rare "black moon," a term for the second new moon in a calendar month.

Venus Optics announced the Laowa FF II 10mm f/2.8 C&D Dreamer as its first ever autofocus lens.

Your guide to viewing the visible planets of the solar system in the night sky of 2025.

Set your Parker Solar Probe sun flyby clocks for Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT), Space Fans.

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24). It is unlikely to get significantly closer to the sun before the end of its mission.

A new study shows Venus likely had a bleak, uninhabitable past

You can vote on one of seven possible names for a quasi-moon of Earth and, unfortunately, Moony McMoonface isn't on the list.

The two brightest nighttime objects, the moon and the planet Venus put on a lovely display in the western evening sky of Wednesday, Dec. 4.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo probe made a close flyby of Mercury on Dec. 1, 2024 and captured an image of the planet.