Located 1,600 metres above sea-level on the peak of a mountain in Chile is an observatory that houses the world’s largest digital camera ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

Meanwhile, Venus and Saturn — both beaming in the morning sky — welcome Jupiter into the fold. The gas giant makes its first appearance at mid-month in Gemini, low in the northeast about an hour ...

Four prominent celestial objects — the moon, a bright planet and two bright stars — will come together to form a "celestial ...

Briefly visible to those in the Northern Hemisphere in early-to-mid April, C/2025 F2 (SWAN) got closest to the sun on 1 May and promises to shine at 5th-magnitude low in the western sky after sunset.

What a month for staring at the night sky. Last week the northern lights weaved ribbons of green and red through the dark. This past weekend, and again Monday evening, a comet that last passed by ...

Hey sky-gazers and cosmic curious! Get ready to mark your calendars because June 2025 is shaping up to be an absolutely stellar month for anyone who loves to look up. Forget binge-watching TV ...

We call last night’s sunset sky a “chaotic sky.” You probably didn’t know that. You just stared at a “sky that was on point” as Andrea Martin put it in our Michigan Weather Facebook group.

Just after sunset from March 1 to March 7, you’ll see Mars, Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury dot the sky in an arc from the south to western skies, with the moon bouncing among them. Uranus will also ...

On December 4, Venus—which is the brightest natural object in the night sky after the moon—will be accompanied by a slim crescent moon. "Venus is hard to miss in the southwest after sunset ...

“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is real science. Here’s how dust, atmospheric pressure and light scattering can help you predict the weather.