Lumie is a market leader when it comes to sunrise alarm clocks. Here’s what happened when our homes team tried them out. Plus ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

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

Rainbows Rainbows are one of nature's most enchanting spectacles, forming beautiful arcs of color in the sky. They occur when ...

If Earth had no atmosphere like the Moon there would be no scattering, and the sky would remain black, even in daylight ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

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

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

Six planets will still be possible to see in one ecliptic plane in the southern and eastern night sky, just after sunset: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. (Note: The circled ...

You might think that explaining why the sky is blue would be kind of simple ... when the Sun is close to the horizon – at sunrise and sunset. When the Sun is near the horizon, its light passes through ...

That clears the way for dark evening skies, though light pollution won't hamper views ... elongation east (farthest from the sun in Earth's sky) on March 8, the tiny inner planet will be between ...