North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere. This week: bright planets at dusk and dawn ...

Venus pairs up with Regulus on July 9 before meeting a slender crescent moon on July 17.

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, here's what Benjamin Franklin and other colonists would have seen when they looked ...

As the moon begins to wane, the Milky Way’s pale, star-studded band becomes increasingly visible against the dark night sky ...

Greetings everyone. You might still be able to see four planets in your personal sky. Venus is hard to miss in the evening ...

The night sky above the world’s best observatories has long been prized for one thing above all: darkness. Now that darkness ...

Credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser/Cover Images Astronomers have warned that Elon Musk and others’ plans to put millions ...

Today: Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg.

Friday, July 3Although the Moon is still bright, there's a short window after darkness falls and before moonrise to sneak in ...

On July 28-29, it will be the peak time for the Piscis Austrinid meteor shower, with a maximum of five meteors per hour.

While fireworks light up the sky of the United States on the night of July 4, another phenomenon shines even more brightly on the horizon: Venus. The planet becomes the “Evening Star” and can be seen ...

This week, we have the ‘Evening Star’ Venus to watch out for whilst in the morning sky, Saturn meets a waning Moon, and see ...