With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...

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

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

Venus, Jupiter and Mars will dazzle in the night sky this month, giving stargazers of all levels a great show. The three ...

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

Stargazers are in for a treat this month, with February's night sky offering a spectacular array of celestial events. The ...

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

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

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 ...