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July's full moon -- known as the Buck Moon or the Thunder Moon -- will light up the night sky on July 10 and be at its ...
Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...
NASA also points out that July and August is an excellent chance to view the constellation Aquila, also known as the eagle as ...
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are lining up — in that order — for the first time since December 2004. On Friday, June 24, the phenomenon will be the most visible to stargazers.
Earth, Mars and Venus all looked pretty similar when they first formed. Today, Mars is dry, cold, and dusty; Venus has a hot, crushing atmosphere. Why did these sibling planets turn out so different?
Mars and Venus are actually separated by 74.4 million miles, almost the distance between Earth and the sun. The two planets will be easy to distinguish from one another in the sky because Venus ...
NASA images of Venus and Mars. Venus and Mars will appear to merge into one planet later this month. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA. The two planets are actually nowhere near each other: Venus is around ...
Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade". Throughout much of January and February, Venus, Mars, Jupiter ...
As Mars, Venus and Saturn grow closer together, the three planets will be contained within a circle 12 degrees across on March 18. This area will reduce to only six degrees by March 31, ...
Mars and Venus in the Workplace reads, today, as a quaint anachronism. In that, it is both a reminder of how much progress has been made within the space of 15 years and, indeed, how much distance ...