Four of Earth’s neighbors are about to appear in a planetary alignment. Those four planets — Mercury, Venus, Neptune and ...

The night sky this week brings a first peek at the Lyrids Meteor Shower before its actual peak, plus planets including Venus, ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

The micromoon refers to a full moon that rises when the celestial body is the farthest from Earth, which NASA states is about ...

It’s a perfect time to dust off that astrophotography rig and get imaging seasonal deep-sky objects, which in spring means galaxies. With the night side of Earth well-placed for observations away from ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is reappearing in the spring night sky, so be ready in case it goes ... for the first time since 1946 — is good news because, since September, it's not been visible ...

If you look up in the night sky on Saturday, April 12, the first full moon of the spring season will look ... so there will be a few good opportunities to see it glowing in the sky if the clouds ...

As the spring weather warms up ... reaches its peak — during the late-night hours on May 3 into the early morning hours on May 4 — there’s some good news for stargazers.

Jupiter will be the first starlike object you see in the evening after sunset with a brightness of –2.1 on the magnitude scale astronomers use, where smaller (or even negative) ...

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