The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...

January skies deliver a rare celestial overlap as a bright supermoon meets the Quadrantid meteor shower, dimming shooting ...

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

Backyard astronomers, rejoice. There's a celestial party in the sky this summer, and you won't want to miss the season's dazzling sights, as five planets shine so bright you'll be able to pick them ...

Rise and shine early on Friday, to see a celestial 'smiley face' in the eastern predawn sky. While meteor showers and auroras can be elusive and sometimes challenging to observe, planetary ...

This week in Skywatch I want you to go sky high to dig for some of the great visual treasures waiting for your eyes. And now that it gets darker a lot sooner in the evening, it’s easier to get out ...

The Ursid meteor shower peaks Sunday night into early Monday morning, and is the last major event on the celestial calendar ...

Sadly, summer comes to an end this month, but the great news for stargazing in September is that there are still plenty of great summer constellations, and with the early sunsets you can get an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This week, if you look high in the west-southwest sky once it gets sufficiently dark, you might ...

When it comes to locating objects in the night sky, how does one convey its precise position? The sky is divided into a scattered pattern of 88 constellations of various sizes and shapes covering ...

The characters of a celestial soap opera called "The Perils of Andromeda" are represented high overhead in our current early evening sky, with two independent mythological plots becoming intertwined ...