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

The competition is organized by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, England, in association with BBC Sky at Night ...

Winter skies can be the clearest of the year and the richest in stars. Here are some of the constellations and planets to ...

Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, ...

Explore New Brunswick’s magical nights with stargazing, night kayaking, glowing paddleboarding and Akadi Lumina’s illuminated ...

Six planets will form a rare planetary alignment in the night sky on Jan. 21; here is everything you need to know about the ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

Photo: Mitchell Clark Astronomy photographers, your time to shine is here. The 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn can be spotted without special equipment, with Uranus and Neptune requiring a telescope.

The planets in our solar system orbit around the sun at different speeds along different paths. “But occasionally they’re ...