Wondering what planets are visible right now? Jupiter and Venus are meeting up in the sky, at least from our vantage point.

A planetary conjunction takes place when two or more planets seem to align closely in the sky as viewed from Earth, despite ...

The Perseid meteor shower may be an annual event for Earth, but the comet responsible for the meteors hasn’t been near our planet in decades. NASA says: "The meteors are debris ...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — will briefly appear in the sky on the same night, starting Sunday (Aug ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

Two University of Canterbury students are getting the chance to work alongside NASA's top scientists and engineers. PhD students Felix Goddard and Jack Patterson were awarded New Zealand Space Agency ...

This week, skygazers have two celestial events to be excited about, with a Jupiter-Venus planetary conjunction and the Perseid meteor shower peak.