"Despite overcast conditions in Telangana and cyclonic activity along the Andhra Pradesh coast, amateur stargazers in ...

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

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months ...

November’s night sky offers Venus and a crescent moon shining together as five planets emerge after sunset and a “Super ...

The new moon occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening sky.

The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...

Monday evening (Nov. 4), the night before Election Day, will bring a lovely celestial display involving the two brightest ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

What an autumn it’s been for stargazing all around the world! Between the frequent Aurora and Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and all ...

Monday evening (Nov. 4 ... of their great brightness. Venus shines at magnitude -4.0, which makes it nearly eleven times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in our night sky.