Stargazers are in for a spectacular treat this weekend as Venus—often called the “Evening Star”—will appear right next to a delicate crescent moon in the night sky. This rare alignment ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

This week we continue to see the planets shuffle their way into our early evening night sky ... a sight! Painting of Voyager 2 spacecraft as it looks back upon Neptune and its moon Triton.

Venus has been shrinking to a crescent ... Moon, which will appear half-illuminated and rise around midnight. The moon’s rising and setting times shift later by about 50 minutes each night ...