June offers a celestial spectacle, starting with the Milky Way's rise in dark skies. Venus shines brightly in the early ...

Four prominent celestial objects — the moon, a bright planet and two bright stars — will come together to form a "celestial ...

Friday, July 4 Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, standing 26° from our star at 1 A.M. EDT. We’ll ...

Sky-watchers will get a rare chance to see all the major planets in our solar system bunched together—with the moon joining the festivities, too, from June 17 to June 27.

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

UW was among the founding members of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, whose discoveries are expected to revolutionize ...

Having a good phone app is a lot of fun and quite helpful in verifying stars, asterisms, and constellations. Most apps will ...

By Deane Morrison During July the morning sky hosts three bright planets, each following its own path. As the month begins, ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

Planets, constellations, and meteor showers are only part of it. Stargazing in Wadi Rum is as much about feeling as it is ...

Greetings! I hope you’re enjoying that brilliant light in your pre-dawn eastern sky. It’s one of the best views of Venus ...

In the early hours of Monday morning, the night sky over South Texas and parts of northern Mexico was briefly transformed into daylight as a brilliant fireball streaked overhead, culminating in what ...