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

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

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

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its entire globe can be glimpsed; the waxing crescent moon appearing as a thin ...

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 ...

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

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

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 appear just above the crescent moon. On the third day of the month, ...

People in the northern hemisphere will be able to see Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars during the planetary parade. The next full moon will happen on Feb. 12. Known as the ...

Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...

The next time a similar planetary alignment will occur is in January, making this the last event of 2024 that sky watchers ...