The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies.

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

Because of this rapid movement, when the sun sets on the following (Tuesday) evening, the configuration between Venus and the moon will have radically changed. In fact, the moon – whose illuminated ...

Fixed stars in astrology, unlike planets, remain stationary in the sky and are believed to influence personality traits and ...

Mars’ features are starting to become visible, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and the Trifid Nebula glows in the sky ...

What’s the bright star in the west after sunset ... object in the solar system after the sun and moon—has been visible only in the pre-dawn sky. That’s changed recently as the closest ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...

Every step she took caused new stars to burst from the ground ... So it was that the Sun and the Moon took to the sky, rising in turn with Night and Day, to watch over their beloved people in ...

The new moon occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening sky.

This week's special full moon will be the last supermoon to be seen for a year, followed by a bright cosmic meteor shower ...

the Sun. WOMAN 2: What can we not see in the sky at the moment? JOSHUA: The stars and the Moon, because i- it's cloudy. WOMAN: Can you see anything up there? EMMA & JOSHUA: No. WOMAN: What a shame.