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

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

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

Venus is particularly bright in the night sky this month, outshining even Sirius, the brightest star. For observers at ...

The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

Californians watching the sky in February have the chance to view a parade of planets and a snow moon. The planetary alignment that began in January will continue into February, according to ...

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 ...

In the UK's Whitley Bay, a shining waxing crescent Moon glows with Venus to the right ... Venus is often called the Evening Star or Morning Star because, when it is prominent, it appears like ...

13 percent of the world's population will fall in the path of a total eclipse of the moon, with the Earth totally blocking out the light of the shine shining onto the full moon. While a solar ...

No, it isn’t a star or a comet but Venus shining bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. Astrologists call the phenomenon a “planet parade,” when the moon and other planets in our solar ...