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

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

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Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days later a young moon will pass near Saturn and near Venus as they cluster ...