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

These two next weeks offer all but one of the planets in lovely view at nightfall. Fred Schaaf goes step by step through the ...

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

The images captured by the Virtual Telescope Project offer a stunning view of the moon’s deep craters and shadowed regions, and even captures the shining rings of Saturn. The moon appears ...

On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon, escaping the view of skywatchers in Europe, Africa, western Russia and eastern Greenland in an event known as a lunar occultation. Astronomer ...

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

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The knobs on the viewfinder are easy to adjust to having an object matched in its crosshairs. With this telescope, you can easily locate and observe the moon, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter. Price aside, ...

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 ...

On this date, Jan. 29, 1859, American astronomer William Cranch Bond died. Cranch and his son, George Phillps Bond, ...