Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...

This NASA visualization, released in February, shows the shadow path for the upcoming ... where the moon completely blocks the sun, a partial eclipse does not darken the sky significantly.

Instead, the sun’s fiery light surrounds the moon’s shadow, creating the so-called ring of fire. The path of Wednesday ... will still put on a show for sky-gazers on land.

Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ecliptic, is the same one that the sun travels along during the year.

It's the same path the sun takes through the daytime sky as seen from Earth. The moon's orbit of Earth isn't quite the same, but its rather wobbly path differs from the ecliptic by only five degrees.

For the next few evenings, the waxing gibbous moon is already well up as skies darken. If you happen to see it, keep in mind ...

We’re quickly losing sight of Saturn, but Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky ... Through a telescope, Venus reveals a 37-percent-lit disk, which thins during the month as its orbital path ...

When you buy through links on our articles ... bright star-like object appearing low in the eastern sky just before the sun itself. What is somewhat amazing is that just a few weeks ago this ...