Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Feb. 7 will appear quite unusual, climbing so very high in the sky.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

On the night of Feb. 5, a waxing gibbous moon will once again cover up the "Seven Sisters" of the famous Pleiades star ...

From planets and constellations, to eclipses and the Aurora Borealis, here's what to look for in the sky this spring ...

Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the ...

What sort of a celebration is Chinese New Year? Cheu contiunues: “China is huge. It includes many cultures and people in ...

Today will see a Last-Quarter (or Third-Quarter) Moon, which will appear half-illuminated and rise around ... the naked eye in the post-sunset night sky. Look south anytime after dark, and you ...

The sun will set at 4.26pm, half an hour after the moonrise at ... meaning it appears slightly larger and brighter in the sky as the moon is at its closest point to earth (the perigee).