Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much ...

Stargazers in the U.S. can see Venus rising around 3 a.m. local time, with the Pleiades star cluster visible as a smudge of ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 4Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation (26°) ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this ...

The nova V462 Lupi was first discovered on June 12 by the Ohio State University-led All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ...

This Thursday we’ll have our first full moon of astronomical summer but for all practical purposes the moon will be pretty ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" —scientifically known as novae —are currently visible to the naked ...

High in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, something extraordinary is happening. Perched on the peak of Cerro Pachón at ...