I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

March 2025 features Venus transitioning from the evening to the morning sky, with a bit of overlap; the year’s best evening ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon ... Sun sinks below the horizon, Saturn is a mere 2.5° high. To see it, you’ll need a very clear western horizon and likely binoculars or a small telescope. Just ...

As the sun dips beneath the horizon and the dusky twilight envelops the skies, Muslims around the globe find themselves on the cusp of one of the most revered ...

Deep in the Saudi Arabian desert, a group of robed men are peering into the sky, trying to spot the crescent moon that ...

Now, the moon is between Earth and the sun. Usually, the moon passes above or below the sun from our vantage point, but occasionally it passes right in front of the sun, and we get a solar eclipse.

Searching for life on other celestial bodies, or at the very least the necessary components to support it, has been ...

A total lunar eclipse occurs this month. Venus transitions from evening to morning, while Mars and Jupiter dominate the late ...

March 2025 features Venus transitioning from the evening to the morning sky, with a bit of overlap; the year’s best evening appearance of Mercury; Jupiter and Mars against stellar backgrounds; the ...

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Mercury: Speedy Mercury is visible beneath Venus for the first week and a half of March, for about 30 minutes each evening, ...

Rayme Traub, a Sherrard native and NASA engineer, helped design the Europa Clipper probe. On Saturday, the probe will undergo ...