In recent decades, space agencies have mostly been focused on visiting Mars -- but now their sights are shifting to Earth's other planetary neighbor: Venus ...

Mars has always been the top target for human colonization, but what if Venus is a better option? While its surface is extreme, the upper atmosphere has conditions similar to Earth, making it a ...

Mars and Venus have been brilliant in the night sky for many months but will soon say farewell as July 2023 comes to a close. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Space. Search.

Mars and Venus will be close together in the night sky on June 30, while Neptune will reverse course through the constellations in the early morning of July 1. Skip to main content.

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?

On the mornings of Feb. 21 and 22, Mars and Venus will appear just a half-degree (one full-moon-width) apart low in the southeastern sky about 40 minutes before sunrise. Venus will be easy to spot ...

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 ...

Venus Always brilliant and shining with a steady, silvery light, Venus will appear in the western sky at dusk from Jan. 1 to March 15, and in the eastern sky at dawn from April 1 through Nov. 6.

All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see without a telescope or binoculars — with them, you can see Uranus and Neptune, too.