This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

Two days after its new phase, the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky while the summer constellations ...

As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by. The moon will appear to skip over Mars between the nights ...

June kicks off as the sixth month of the calendar year, with the summer solstice occurring mid-month, marking the start of a ...

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

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

Credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and the summer constellations will be rising.

The Lagoon Nebula (M8) in Sagittarius appears highest around 3 A.M., when it soars above the Teapot of Sagittarius.

Venus dominates the dawn sky. She reaches greatest western elongation, 46 degrees ahead of the rising sun, on June 1, and ...

To the Native Americans, it was a sign of abundance while western cultures saw it as a sign of love and new ... moon. June opens with Jupiter, at magnitude -1.9, low in the western sky.

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A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.