The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, putting on a spectacular show just six hours after the moon hits its third ...

The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the ...

The massive core of our Milky Way galaxy serves as the backdrop to Full Moons, planetary conjunctions, and meteor showers ...

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The delicate waning crescent Moon stands directly to the left of the bright planet Venus before dawn ... It’s the brightest point of light in the morning sky, shining at magnitude –4.5 ...

If you were outside yesterday morning ... The planet’s disk also appears as a crescent, now some 45 percent lit. That disk spans an impressive 26” in the sky, thanks to Venus’ proximity ...

And our earliest sunrises come around mid-month, at around 5:17 a.m. So, if you want to see any of the planets in the morning sky, you’ll have to be an early riser indeed. Venus and Saturn are ...

Each evening the two planets get closer but Jupiter fades fast. Jupiter will reappear in the morning sky in late July. The first chance to see Mercury, at magnitude -1.5, will be on June 6 when it ...

If you have a clear view of the night sky at the end of February, you'll be able to see all the planets in the solar system with the naked eye, lined up in a "planetary parade." But what would ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it will be the farthest from the sun, is coming up on June 1 at midnight ET.