One of the brightest stars in the summer night sky will be occulted (eclipsed) by the moon this weekend in one ... and three times the radius of the sun, much hotter, and are so close that they ...

Brilliant Jupiter rises at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and by twilight on Nov. 30. It can be found in the constellation Taurus at ...

Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island), off the Llŷn Peninsula, has become the first site in Europe to be awarded International Dark Sky ... moon goes around us, we move a little further around the sun ...

We’re at the peak of the 11-year solar cycle, so the sun is very active ... low in the western sky just after sunset. Mercury will be to the right of the moon, with the star Antares to the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky ... where the sun has recently set. You can be among the first to see the youngest, most slender waxing crescent moon this ...

Look up, as the Full Moon of October — also known as the Hunter's Moon — will be big and bright in the night sky for the latter ... side of Earth from the Sun. This alignment is known as ...

Mars sits high in the sky. Watch the Moon pass a couple of bright stars and planets, see below for dates. Evening sky: Jupiter has entered the evening sky rising around 10 p.m. early in November ...

On Oct. 14 NASA’s Europa Clipper was launched from Kennedy Space Center to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa. It will arrive at Jupiter in April 2030. Europa is believed to have a subsurface ocean with ...