Four of Earth’s neighbors are about to appear in a planetary alignment. Those four planets — Mercury, Venus, Neptune and ...

April’s planetary parade has fewer planets. Only four will line up: Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. April's parade of ...

Four planets in the solar system are about to appear in alignment in the night sky. Here's how stargazers will be able to see ...

Venus, Saturn and the moon will form a triple conjunction, appearing to look like a smiley face in a sky. Here's how and when ...

Oregon has gained a reputation as something of a dark sky paradise. While Oregonians have long known about the particularly ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

Venus is very bright right now and can be seen with the naked eye just after sunset. Using a telescope, backyard astronomers ...

The past two weeks were almost entirely cloudy. Behind the clouds, we missed many beautiful events involving the moon, ...

This annual shower is expected to reach its peak and generate its highest number of shooting stars during the late-night hours on April ... The radiant is the point in the sky from which meteors ...

Research shows that feeling a sense of awe can make you feel better. So can being outside in nature. Some scientists point to ...

These high-speed collisions create frictional heat, causing the particles to vaporize in bright flashes we recognize as meteors or “shooting stars ... in the sky. As the night progresses ...