When we have five or more planets filing into a small sky area, an alignment is upgraded to parade status. Parade is not an ...

Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is real science. Here’s how dust, atmospheric ...

While much of what you've been hearing about a "Planetary Parade," is pure hype, you still do have reason to look into the ...

For a few days around this date, we can try spotting Venus in bright twilight both immediately before sunrise and right after sunset. It rapidly zooms into the morning sky, reaching an angular ...

Sunrise: 7:16 A.M. Sunset: 7:04 P.M. Moonrise: 5:42 P.M. Moonset: 6:41 A.M. Mercury & Venus appear side by side tonight in the evening sky. The two planets are 5.5° apart and remain visible for ...

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

Seven planets are on display in the night sky at the end of February, but some will be harder to spot than others. Here’s ...

You may recall that we had six planets in the sky at one time during the evenings in late January, but this time we will have all seven planets.

The seven other planets in our solar system can be seen in the sky at once through Friday, forming a planet parade. But two ...