The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

February is when Venus — named after the Roman goddess of love — shines her brightest. Here's how to spot it and the full moon before Valentine's Day.

Collecting Shooting Stars on Adoption Island is a breeze, as all 30 stars can be found on the island itself, with no need to ...

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

February is when Venus — named after the Roman goddess of love — shines her brightest. Here's how to spot it and the full moon before Valentine's Day.

Earth is, simply put, a ball of confusion these days for most of us—from its pandemics to its politics and everything in ...

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

Temperatures turn higher with 50s to low 60s Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday turns quite a bit colder again, with a chance of ...

Ball Lightning Imagine seeing a glowing sphere floating through the sky during a thunderstorm. That's ball lightning, a ...

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

Everybody Loves a Cluster with a Nebula This is NGC 2264, the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. The bright stars ...

Starting Monday, Feb. 3, the day after Groundhog Day, you should be able to see another planetary parade in the night sky, ...