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NEW YORK — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan ...

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World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction, astrophotographers have snapped some striking shots of the crescent planet ...

Above it, a small dot marks Venus, while Earth's bright reflection appears almost as large ... Kearns noted that scientists ...

From an astrological point of view, there are hardly two words that elicit a stronger reaction than Mercury retrograde.