Venus is particularly bright in the night sky this month, outshining even Sirius, the brightest star. For observers at ...
A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet ...
One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be ...
A close conjunction of Venus and the crescent moon were seen across the world this weekend. Here are the best images of one ...
I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...
Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the ...
By that time, it will be shining at a brilliant magnitude-4.9. (Lower magnitudes are brighter.) If you have a small telescope ...
An international research team used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe massive galaxies initially discovered by the ...
Putting together your DIY telescope requires attaching the objective lens at one end of your cardboard tube and inserting the ...
January's skywatching highlights include four planets visible to the naked eye, Venus and Saturn's conjoin, and red planet ...
On January 9, 1643, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Riccioli saw a weird glowing light on the night side of Venus. He named it "The Ashen Light of Venus." Astronomers have seen it intermittently since ...