Readers’ photos celebrate sunrises and sunsets, when the light is the most pleasing. Fifty-one photos were sent in; here are ...

This lovely evening sky was photographed over a Sacramento neighborhood in early January. Thank you, Claus Weisemann, for ...

Four planets are visible in the night sky immediately after sunset, with Venus and Saturn ... the BepiColumbo spacecraft took close-up images of its craters. If a planet is visible from the ...

Picture date: Friday January 3 ... while it's still easy to see in the post-sunset night sky. Shooting stars were visible shortly after the sight of the moon and Venus dissipated.

Although Jupiter and Mars have been dominating the eastern sky, there’s more here to view than just planets. Already 50° high an hour after sunset, the bright, magnitude 0.1 star Capella stands ...

Six planets will still be possible to see in one ecliptic plane in the southern and eastern night sky, just after sunset: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. (Note: The circled ...