The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window ...

The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...

Venus and Saturn will ... outshining Jupiter twelve-fold and appearing nearly 20 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest of all stars. Mars continues to recede from Earth, so consequently ...

Use your binoculars if you have them to look for the four main moons of Jupiter. See “Jupiter” in the planets section for more information. April 5: Mars ... the Month: Venus, Saturn and ...

When the moon is exactly on the opposite side of the Earth ... and Mars in the north-northwest about 32 degrees high. Jupiter sets by 9:32 p.m. and Mars at 12:25 a.m. April 13. Venus and Saturn ...

Jupiter is ensconced ... passes just above Mars, creating a charming, unequally bright pair. After having served as the brilliant Evening Star since the end of last summer, Venus passed inferior ...

Volcanic features have been observed on our fellow rocky planets, Venus and Mars, but they largely appear to ... The one member of our Solar System that surpasses Earth in volcanic vitality is Io, ...

In February, stargazers everywhere got to see a seven-planet alignment - called a "planetary parade." It'll be a while before ...

Elsewhere in the Solar System, Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 95, Uranus has 28 and Neptune has 16, for a total of 142 moons. We only need to discover ten more moons around Saturn ...

The crust of volcanically active Venus could be churning with convection currents just like the Earth's mantle ... was unlikely within the mantle of Mercury, a world that is too small and has ...

The discovery is one of the most significant findings in the search for evidence of past life on Mars. This is because, on Earth at least, relatively complex, long-chain of carbon molecules are ...