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

Hello everyone! We can see four planets in the early evening sky this week so definitely go out around 7:15 p.m. and enjoy ...

There are countless fixed stars in the firmament, but Sei Shonagon (c.966-c.1025) named only the Pleiades star cluster and ...

Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter will ...

The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

This month, four bright planets greet you in the early evening. Venus and Saturn cozy up on the 17th and 18th, while Mars is at its brightest in the past two years. The Moon occults Mars for those in ...

Look below for details on night sky events coming up. This is a great time of year to check out some of the well-known constellations from Orion to Pegasus, Cassiopeia to Perseus. For a guide on ...

January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

The Orion Nebula, as seen from Bago ... this is the brightest nebula and is easily visible to the naked eye in the night sky — but it looks spectacular in a small telescope.

Five fist-widths to the left of Orion’s shoulders is Capella, the sixth brightest star. And a little over two-fist widths down toward the horizon from Rigel is Sirius the sky’s brightest star.

An uncrewed Orion spacecraft successfully traveled thousands ... Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction ...

Orion climbs the sky during the early evening hours in January ... When the sun sets in the west, Mars rises in the east and stays out the entire night, shining nearly as bright as Sirius ...