Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 27The Moon passes 3° north of Mercury at 2 A.M. EDT. By evening the two are visible in the western sky, roughly 8° high an hour ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 18 Mars remains close to Sigma (σ) Leonis, Leo the Lion’s back foot, in the evening sky for several days. Shining at magnitude ...

The point at which Mercury appears most distant from the sun in Earth's sky, known as its point of greatest elongation, will occur at 00:37 a.m. EDT (0437 GMT) on July 4, according to stargazing ...

Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...

Stargazing is to summer as sledding is to winter; It’s a part of the season. Those looking to the evening sky this month are in for a treat, as AccuWeather recently shared that July will feature ...

By the next evening, July 27, the moon will have traveled away from Regulus along the ecliptic — the path the moon, sun and planets trace through our sky — moving on a trajectory that will see ...

The moon's 7% illuminated disk could prove tricky to spot against the evening sky and will swiftly set alongside Regulus, a little over an hour after the sun. If you do spot the moon, you may ...

Saturn will be a fixture in the evening sky until the middle of March 2026, when it will pass close to the sun from our perspective, rendering it temporarily lost from view.