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

In September, the sky gets dark significantly earlier, allowing us to observe the night sky without having to stay up too ...

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 ...

A conjunction is an astronomy term that describes when two planets or celestial bodies are close together in the night sky. Jupiter went first, followed by Mars and now finally Mercury.

Europe's Jupiter probe has captured a stunning view of Earth ... Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or ...

The images of the new volcano were taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft and its JunoCam as it made a flyby of Io — the solar ...

Jupiter blazes at magnitude –2.4 ... Sunrise: 6:52 A.M. Sunset: 6:49 P.M. Moonrise: 12:32 A.M. Moonset: 4:17 P.M. With no ...

The big attractions of our column today are a small eclipse of an especially big harvest moon Tuesday night and the arrival ...

it will be in conjunction with Jupiter and Mars in the east-northeast sky. In the very early hours of today—just after midnight—a half-lit moon will rise in the eastern sky close to the night ...

Still, it should be bright enough to see, even in light-polluted skies. Saturn, the Full Moon, Jupiter, and Mars line up ...

The planet Saturn returns to our evening sky this week, and I think anyone who has ever seen it through a telescope would argue that it is their favorite ...

Celebrate a Harvest Moon lunar eclipse and an occultation of the planet Saturn, just days before Neptune reaches opposition.