You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious ...

I had to crane my neck all the way back to see Mars the other night. It was straight above me, a glowing orange dot in the ...

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

February stargazing is fantastic for many reasons, but this year there’s a one-two-three punch of bright planets adding to ...

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 ...

Any clear winter night this month, look south between 8 and 10 p.m. to spot the large hourglass shape of Orion the Hunter. In ...

With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

The alignment of six planets – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Venus – this month has sky photographers abuzz. While astronomers flock to places like the official Cattle Point Dark Skies ...

Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn are all currently lined up in a row and will be visible in the night ...

The alignment of six planets – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune ... just below the three stars that make up Orion’s Belt. The same constellation contains the Horsehead Nebula just below the first star ...