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

As we go through June, each night in the southeast around midnight, our galaxy, the Milky Way, rises. You’ll need a dark sky site to see the Milky Way and a clear view of the horizon.

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

This solstice occurs when Earth arrives at the point in its orbit where the North Pole is at its maximum tilt (about 23.5 degrees) toward the sun, resulting in the longest day and shortest night ...