These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars ... the spin is called retrograde rotation. Its magnetosphere is tipped almost 60 degrees ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye. The six planets will be visible until February 9. You'll need a high-powered viewing device like a telescope to spot Neptune and ...

But then retreats beyond the orbit of Venus to "cool down ... "But also the sizes, shapes, velocities and rotation speeds of the objects themselves." On Earth, perihelion and aphelion at one ...

I recently noticed something odd about Saturn while admiring it near brilliant Venus ... 10.5-hour rotation period, the planet’s thickened middle would have torqued debris into an orbit directly ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

All attempts to fill this gap failed until January 1, 1801, when Piazzi discovered the small planet Ceres, the orbit of which was ... have compensated the earth's rotation and kept the telescope ...

Some are natural, like the colors of the Northern Lights, the beauty of a meteor shower, planet Venus in the night sky ... You can actually see things in Earth's orbit from the ground.