The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

"In January, you'll have the opportunity to take in four bright planets in a sweeping view" said Preston Dyches of NASA's Jet ...

In the night sky, it appears as a curved band of stars and what appears to be glowing ... like Mars' reddish color, Jupiter's Galilean moons and even Saturn's rings. Comets are giant snowballs ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The Geminid ... numerous but the most colorful, too, with white, yellow and even green "shooting stars" possible.

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

It’s Venus. From January through September, the closest planet to Earth dominated the post-sunset night western sky as the “Evening Star,” becoming ever-brighter, before sinking back into ...

Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...

An exposure longer than about 25 seconds will start to show star trails and capture their movement as they travel across the night sky, so experiment with timings. Generally, the rule of thumb is to ...