The night sky is an object of fascination for many, and the Princeton community is no exception. On select nights throughout ...

For a brief moment at the end of February, every planet will appear in the night sky simultaneously in a rare celestial ...

Make time soon to head outside after the sun sets and study the sky. Five of the brightest planets — Venus, Jupiter, Mars, ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Cheyenne’s Marcy Curran, the cofounder of the Cheyenne Astronomy Society and an editor of a major astronomy publication, has ...

You shouldn't set your expectations too high, but it will give you enough of a taste to see whether you want to invest in ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

Jupiter has been high in the sky in the evening lately, and that stirred a memory of the first time I ever saw Jupiter ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

From supermoons to a total eclipse to the national park’s biggest and best-attended star parties, these are the must-see celestial shows of the year ...