A final "gee-whiz" fact you can reveal to your friends is that what you are seeing in Monday's sky is an illusion of ...

Venus will be only 17 degrees east of the sun and the moon just 36 hours past new when it passes closest to Venus in the sky. You may need binoculars, and Venus might have to guide you to the ...

Venus is currently 107 million miles (172 million km) from Earth, while the moon is only about 244,900 miles (394,200 km) away. As a result, the moon appears to move much more rapidly against the ...

August’s full sturgeon moon is peaking this weekend, accompanied by meteor showers and shining planets. Here’s how to see the ...

Jupiter and Venus are two of the brightest objects in the night sky. When you know where to look, it is very easy to spot ...

Venus and Jupiter shine together in a rare, close morning conjunction this August. The Perseid meteor shower is dimmed by ...

Skies in the South Bend area should be clear during the full moon. Its brightness is a problem, however, for the height of ...

On the evening of August 11, stargazers can observe a stunning close encounter between Saturn, the ringed planet, and our ...

The full moon occurs on the 9th in the constellation of Aquarius — the Perseid meteor showers peak from August 11-13. Venus ...

Watch over the next few days as the two brightest planets approach within a Moon’s width of each other, culminating Aug. 12.

So, through the first half of April, Venus will serve as a convenient guidepost to locate this normally hard-to-find planet. About 30 to 45 minutes after sunset, look toward the west-northwest sky.