Weekend Sky Show: Venus and Saturn Pair Up After Sunset

This weekend Venus and Saturn will appear very close in the western evening sky, about one degree apart (roughly a finger’s width), 30–40 minutes after sunset on March 7–8, 2026. Binoculars and dark skies will help observers spot the pair, which will look adjacent though they are about 800 million miles apart. This event is a planetary conjunction, explained by how such alignments appear from Earth, with sources including Earthsky.org, NASA, and The Planetary Society.