Mercury: Visible in Leo but will be hard to see due to its proximity to sunrise. Uranus: This distant ice giant is too faint ...

Bonus: depending on cloud coverage, the moon will also be visible. A planetary alignment goes down, up high, when more than two planets align in the sky. If three planets align, it’s known as a ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

O'Donoghue pays a visit to NCPR's morning news show, Northern Light, to guide us through what to look for in the morning and ...

Opposition is generally the best time to view planets, as they are highest around local midnight ... magnitude 0.6 Saturn for ...

Just a little bit below the Corona Borealis, experts say, is where the Blaze Star should appear. Need help finding stars, planets and constellations? Try these free astronomy apps The following free ...

Shifting our gaze from Saturn to the King of planets, Jupiter, we encounter a different spectacle ... these moons continue to ...

New simulations suggest that there are enough primordial black holes—potential dark matter candidates—in the universe for one ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

A mini-moon will happen again in 2029; that one WILL be visible to the naked eye. The asteroid Apophis will come within ...

In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently ...