Venus continues to be the brilliant “Morning Star” in the East before dawn, albeit dimming just a bit as it moves away from ...

Mars has now risen to the rank of the fifth brightest object in the pre-midnight evening sky, rivaled only by the moon, Venus, Jupiter and the brightest of all stars, Sirius. If the weather is ...

The Moon passes 0.4° south of Spica at 4 A.M. EDT. The best time for observing this pairing is in the few hours between midnight and 3 ... Virgo the Maiden, the sky's second-largest constellation ...

The biggest highlight for the year ahead is the total lunar eclipse the night of March 13, which will reach its peak mere minutes before midnight ... sky, as the waning crescent moon will be ...