Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

Venus may have once had a moon, but new research suggests the planet’s incredibly slow rotation could have doomed it.

Scientists have long speculated why Venus, with a size, mass and structure similar to Earth's, doesn't have a moon. New UC ...

Earlier explanations of why Venus doesn't have a moon leaned on drama. Perhaps something enormous smashed Venus' ancient moon ...

New simulations suggest Venus' extremely slow rotation could have caused a hypothetical moon to spiral inward and collide ...

Earth’s next-door neighbor Venus is often called our twin. The two planets feature similar sizes, masses and structures. One ...

In the past, scientists have theorized that Venus possibly had a moon at one time that got hit with something massive, ...

Don’t miss out on these spectacular celestial events.

Venus will disappear behind the Moon on September 14, 2026, during a rare lunar occultation. Here is the timing in IST and EST/EDT, visibility and how to safely watch the daytime event.

The moon and Venus join forces in Scorpio, adding a little mystique to this sky show ...

This photo taken on Sept. 14, 2026 shows the planet of Venus next to the moon in the sky over Kaili, Qiandongnan Miao and ...

A new study suggests that Venus may have once possessed a moon that eventually spiraled back into the planet, reshaping ideas about the history of Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. Published in the ...