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Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...
August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.
With the timing of the Moon's phases, the nights of the 29th, 30th, and 31st are probably the best time to go out and spot these meteors. This is because the Moon will be off in the west throughout ...
Look west at sunset to find the razor-thin crescent moon hanging less than 10 degrees above the horizon. Regulus will appear ...
For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.
The mean sun’s motion across the sky is constant and unwavering. You could literally set your clock by this hypothetical sun—and, in fact, we do!—to define a 24-hour day that never changes.
Astronomers think small space rocks from beyond our solar system routinely strike Earth—but proving it isn’t easy ...
Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted object, likely a comet, hailing from outside the solar system, only the third time ...
Check your forecast for clear skies! The Perseids, delta Aquariids, and alpha Capricornids will put on a crisscrossing ...