Although the early evening sky boasts only one naked-eye planet, quality more than makes up for the lack of quantity. Venus attains a splendid peak when it reaches greatest elongation Aug. 15. It then ...

The evening sky boasts two naked-eye planets. Start your night’s viewing with ruddy Mars, which lies in the west as darkness falls. It treks eastward against the backdrop of Virgo, passing 2° north of ...

If you're based in the Southern Hemisphere and want to know what you can see in the night sky tonight, this page is for you. Our monthly-updated night-sky guide will show you what you can see in the ...

The Alpha Capricornid and Southern Delta Aquariid meteor showers will peak on Thursday night into Friday morning. Here’s how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This week, Saturn takes center stage at its yearly ...

An illustration of a red giant star and a white dwarf orbiting each other in a recurrent nova explosion. NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center The Southern Hemisphere skies have two “new stars” visible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Early March finds us in a dramatic lull as far as viewing naked-eye planets goes, with four of them being uncomfortably close to ...

It doesn’t happen often that Mercury ranks as the planetary highlight of the evening sky, but July is an exception. The solar system’s smallest major planet reaches greatest elongation July 4, when it ...