For several days this month, Saturn, Mars, and Mercury appear just degrees apart before sunrise—close enough to watch their ...

February ends with a treat for sky-gazers: a parade of seven planets across the night sky, including Mercury, Uranus and Neptune alongside typically bright planets such as Mars, Venus, Jupiter and ...

Spring is known as “galaxy season,” but that’s not all April’s nightscapes have in store. Here’s what to find while you’re stargazing this month, plus when and where to look.

Despite the hype around expensive telescopes and rare celestial events, beginners can experience the core of stargazing with nothing more than their naked eyes and 20 minutes of patience. You step ...

In just some of many celestial highlights of August 2025, stargazers peeped a "planet parade" and caught a rare Venus and Jupiter conjunction, with plenty more dazzling displays in the night sky to ...

Dwarf planet 1 Ceres reaches its stationary point in Cetus the Whale at 9 P.M. EDT. Previously it was moving eastward relative to the background stars. Now it will begin to move westward, or ...

As the year nears its end, the winter solstice brings the year’s longest nights for those of us who reside in the Northern Hemisphere. And through the season, Mother Nature has seen to it that our ...

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February ends with a treat for sky-gazers: a parade of seven planets across the night sky, including Mercury, Uranus and Neptune alongside typically bright planets such as Mars, Venus, Jupiter and ...

The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of the terms used in astronomy and discussing what will be in the night sky ...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Early risers in northern Nevada can catch a rare cosmic display over the next two months: six planets lining up in the night sky along with the moon. The phenomenon, often called a ...