A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29. Skywatchers in the U.S. will find the cosmic smile hanging above the ...

A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29. Skywatchers in the U.S. will find the cosmic smile hanging above the ...

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On the morning of July 21, about 1.5 hours before sunrise, look low in the east-northeast sky for the slender waning crescent moon and situated about 8 degrees below it will be Venus.

Following Saturn is Venus, rising in New York at 2:51 a.m. on July 25. Venus is in Taurus, and so bright that it is ...

Susan Bruns, July's writer-curator for Something I Heard, reads an excerpt from “The Mountain and the Fathers” by Joe Wilkins.

On the night of May 16, a large beam of light resembling a spotlight was seen shooting into the night sky in the Southwest, but its source remains unknown. A Facebook post sharing the mysterious ...