February is no ordinary month—it’s a cosmic shake-up with Venus floating through dreamy Pisces, Mercury pushing ambitions in ...

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A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...

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The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...

Starting with the Moon’s journey across the sky this month, you’ll find the slim crescent of Earth’s natural satellite cozied ...