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 ...

Greetings! Your early morning eastern sky is filled with very bright stars and planets and it’s worth getting up and having a ...

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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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 ...

Sky watchers are in for a sweet pre-summer treat, with the “strawberry moon” of June 2025 getting ready to turn full in the coming days. The so-called strawberry moon, which will actually look ...

“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 Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. It’s extremely bright and it will be ...

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