NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

Explore the wonders of the Northern Hemisphere's night sky with our guide to the best celestial sights you can observe with ...

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the ...

Visible for some five hours after sunset is Mars, making its way through Cancer. Shining at 1st magnitude, this ruddy point ...

Thursday, May 22 The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it’s best to catch them earlier rather ...

Earth’s blue sky and familiar sun are just one version of reality. On Mercury, the sun blazes over three times larger than on Earth, while stars dominate the nights without atmospheric interference.

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

Modest binoculars or a small telescope are all you need to see the Beehive Star Cluster. Appearing as a circular patch of ...

Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...

Mars and Jupiter will be visible in ... When you look at the night sky in May, you won’t just find stars and a moon, you’ll find four planets, a chance of meteor showers and the possibility ...

Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky. Now there's a ...