Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, ...

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

Trekking quickly through the sky, the Moon passes 2° south of Venus at 3 P.M. EST and 1.4° north of Neptune at 6 P.M. EST. By ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

As soon as it gets dark, two bright lights become visible—the brightest in the southwest and an almost-as-bright light in the east. What are they?

Here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in February 2025: If you've been outside just after sunset in the ...

Although Jupiter and Mars have been dominating the eastern sky, there’s more here to view than just planets. Already 50° high an hour after sunset, the bright, magnitude 0.1 star Capella stands ...

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you identify them.

We will be one planet short of a maximum alignment. 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, ...