The lunar crescent will disappear below the horizon before midnight on Jan. 22.

Look to the west-southwest after dark on Thursday, Jan. 22, to see a 17%-lit waxing crescent moon moving close to the ringed ...

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

With the moon out of the way on Jan. 18, bright Jupiter and Saturn become stand-outs in the January night sky.

The winter solstice doesn’t coincide with the latest sunrise or the earliest sunset. Those actually occur about two weeks ...

This week, around the same time the sun sets in the west, Orion — winter’s most prominent constellation — rises in the east.

Mercury, the buzzy planet that directs the collective mindset, stepped into a new sign on New Year’s Day in both 2016 and ...

Neptune was supposed to be the quiet, distant ice giant, a cold blue marble barely warmed by the Sun. Instead, the James Webb ...

It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

The first full look at NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket on the pad is the kind of sight that makes even jaded space fans stop ...