The month brings a spectacular lineup of celestial sights—including a rare chance to see Mercury without a telescope and a ...

It's easy to get lost in a clear night sky full of stars. It can feel like a random mess of lights without a little guidance. Once you're able to identify a few constellations though, the sky starts ...

Whether you enjoy it or not, the sun is setting earlier but the fading light is not all doom and gloom. Longer nights mean more time to look up at the stars and take in the beauty of the cosmos. As we ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

Being that it’s Halloween this Friday, I thought it only appropriate to tell you about my favorite monsters of the night sky ...

One of the classic constellations of the night sky is Pegasus, the flying horse. The heavenly horsey is currently soaring in ...

This week on Star Watch you will be able to see multiple planets in the night sky and the big and little dipper constellations. Friday, June 28, at 11 PM you will be able to see 2 planets in the sky.

In November the bright winter constellations begin their grand entry into the evening sky. Leading the parade is Jupiter, the brilliant orb low in the east at nightfall. Of the brightest stars in the ...

What we celebrate today as Halloween has its beginnings in a thousands-of-years old Celtic tradition based on the Seven ...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...