Venus reaches its point of greatest western elongation on June 1, at which time the dazzling 'morning star' will be at its ...

A gathering of planets in the morning sky offers some nice ... Venus extends its elongation from the Sun during the month and is carried eastward against the background stars of Pisces, away ...

Sky This Week ... in conjunction with the Sun at 8 P.M. EDT, meaning it lies on the opposite side of our star from Earth. It will return to our skies in June as a morning planet.

Catch Jupiter low early in the month, then enjoy Mercury and Mars in the evenings. Saturn, Neptune, and Venus shine in the ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 30The crescent Moon lies in Cancer this evening, just a ...

The picture here shows the back inner wall of Orientale (longitude 100 west) as the thinnest of white lines on the very limb, illuminated by a late-morning Sun in the lunar sky. If it was late ...

The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on ...

A recently discovered comet is currently gracing our morning ... across the sky. Astronomers discovered the comet in images captured by the SWAN instrument aboard NASA’s Sun-watching SOHO ...

Early morning risers who head out to work and school before sunrise are likely beginning to notice an extremely bright star-like object appearing low in the eastern sky just before the sun itself.

It is, after all, the third brightest planet in the sky, next to the sun and moon. Still, it's important to be careful when ...

The picture here shows the back inner wall of Orientale (longitude 100 west) as the thinnest of white lines on the very limb, illuminated by a late-morning Sun in the lunar sky. If it was late ...