I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

The moon's crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise.

One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn ...

How to Marvel at the Spectacular Buck Moon This Week, Along With Mars and Venus Just a couple of days until July's full moon, also known as the Thunder Moon, will fill the sky.

Many moonless evenings the next two weeks are a great time for viewing the best of the summer stars. You may also see the remarkable occurrence of two exploding stars ...

Why does the moon look big? What to know about the 'Moon Illusion' There's something neat that happens when the full moon is closer to the horizon; it looks HUGE. Especially when you glimpse it poking ...

Catch it rising in the constellation Gemini just before sunrise, shining at 1.9 magnitude. Venus, meanwhile, continues its eastward journey, edging closer to Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus.

What if Venus became Earth's moon? Explore how our planet would change if Earth’s twin, a planet almost the same size and gravity,suddenly started orbiting us. Venus is no ordinary planet. With ...

Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus and Neptune stand near brighter beacons: Neptune and Saturn are two ...

On July 12, Venus appears very close to the third-magnitude star Epsilon at the end of the northern arm of the “V.” The next morning, Venus passes 3.2° to the north of Aldebaran, eye of the Bull and ...

Without the full brightness of the Moon, the night sky is particularly dark, creating the perfect conditions to spot some stars (although you’ll still be able to see them when the Moon’s ...