This week will offer one of the great opportunities in June to take in a special celestial event – a Venus-Jupiter planetary conjunction.

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Pope Leo XIV talks to journalists aboard the papal flight from Rome to Madrid on June. Alessandra Tarantino/AP hide caption ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (RNS) — Pop…

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New simulations reveal that the moons of Uranus may retain traces of giant planets.

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A close conjunction of the two brightest planets in the night sky will take place over several evenings, with the best time to look being June 9-11.