The red planet Mars will be next to bright blue star Regulus this coming week, creating a rare contrast in colors in the ...

If you’re looking for a stellar experience this month, June promises to offer some of the most breathtaking celestial events ...

Look for them around 10 p.m. local daylight time, roughly one-quarter up in the western sky. In addition to their closeness ...

Mars, Jupiter and Mercury will all appear low in the west after sunset. Look for bright Venus low in the eastern sky for ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range ... And luck is already on your side—the moon will be barely illuminated as a waxing crescent, so it won't impede your view of fainter shooting ...

Kids are often taught to associate the sun with the day and the moon and stars with the night. Yet why does the ... and stars are always somewhere in the sky, but we can’t always see them.

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And well it should, as Vega is the fifth brightest star in the entire night sky ... June 22: The waning crescent moon in the east-southeast sky before dawn is above the beautiful and bright ...

The Strawberry Moon ... the night sky enchants you like no other, wait for the Bootid meteor shower which is known for its display of hundreds of shooting stars. On June 30th, the waxing crescent ...

In the Northern Hemisphere during the spring, the bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this ...

This evening, the crescent Moon lies within Cancer ... visible two hours before sunrise. Additionally, the Moon passes close to Mars in the evening sky, positioned near Regulus, the bright star in Leo ...