The bright star Spica will appear to dance around Earth's moon on the night of May 9. Here's how to catch the celestial pair at play ahead of next week's full 'Flower Moon'. Stargazers should look for ...

As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by. The moon will appear to skip over Mars between the nights ...

The bright star Spica will appear to dance around ... hemisphere — shining to the upper left of the moon. Meanwhile, Mars will glow low near the horizon.

Venus continues to be the brilliant “Morning Star” in the East before dawn, albeit dimming just a bit as it moves away from ...

The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and the ...

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The moon will slide in front of the red supergiant star Antares on May 13, briefly blocking its light just a day after reaching its full "Flower Moon" phase. Because the moon is relatively close to ...

Also appearing near the moon on the first night of the month is Regulus, the bright pale-blue star in the constellation Leo, ...

Unleash your inner space nerd at these incredible late-night stargazing festivals, hosted across the U.S. national park system every summer.

Now three months past its conjunction with the sun in March, Saturn is currently well separated from the dawn glow. On June 1 ...

Earth’s sister planet reaches greatest western elongation and dichotomy as the waxing Moon slides along the ecliptic in the ...