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

When the sun sets on Friday, stargazers are about to have their best chance at seeing Mercury shine in the night sky in 2025. Visible to the naked eye, Mercury should be seen in the western sky at ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Mercury puts on its best evening apparition ... which is too close to the sun to be seen, reaching solar conjunction on March 12. Earth will pass through the plane of Saturn's ring system on ...

The best opportunity to potentially see all seven planets is coming up on Feb. 28 around 6:10 p.m. ET, according to Shanahan. Mercury, which is the closest planet to the sun, would be the first to be ...

18-degrees to the east of the sun, on March 8. Shining then at a magnitude of -0.2 (just a trifle brighter than the similarly hued star Arcturus), Mercury should be readily visible, appearing low ...

If you can find a view low to the western horizon on Monday, March 10, you may see a rare conjunction between Venus and Mercury — the two planets interior to Earth in the solar system — before they ...

Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are frequently seen in the night sky. But because Venus and Mercury orbit closer to the sun than Earth, with smaller, faster orbits, it's more rare for them to make an ...