With a nickname like Big Sky country, it's no surprise Montana is the ultimate destination for this year's celestial events, ...

Within the park is the town of Borrego Springs, California's first Dark Sky Community; you can study the stars with acclaimed astronomer Dennis Mammana through Borrego Night Sky Tours. Where to ...

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.

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

Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky ... by two massive stars, each with a ...

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

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 ...

As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky. On February 1, we should see the crescent moon in ...

Wednesday night the “Parade of Planets” was in full and spectacular view. In the southwest sky, glorious Venus was ... high and bright among the stars of Taurus the Bull and the Pleiades.