Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...

Becoming familiar with the night raptors in your neighborhood is worth exploring. Many owls are comfortable with human ...

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, plus Earth under your feet—all eight known planets of our solar system!

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will ...

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

With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

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

Earlier this week, Lane celebrated four years of sobriety. On Thursday, Jan. 30, which was the four-year anniversary of his ...

For a vacation that welcomes you to both revel in and respect the culture of the locale, look no further than Caribbean-born, ...

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