Somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, as the old poem goes, but on Sunday that somewhere seemed not to be in the District, where it was implacably overcast all the day long ...

“Sometime around mid- to late September, if you get up before the sun rises and look to the east part of the sky, you’ll see ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 4Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation (26°) from the Sun at 1 A.M. EDT this morning. You can view the tiny planet in the ...

The rocky planet will hit the orbital milestone at 00.00 a.m. EDT (0400 GMT) on June 1, while Venus is below the horizon for skywatchers in the U.S, according to stargazing website EarthSky.org.At ...