Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

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March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

Venus quickly disappears in the twilight glare as ... embedded among the background stars of Gemini, appears nearly due north in the early evening sky. Although the Red Planet dims from magnitude ...

by 6:52 p.m. — civil twilight — it is about 9 degrees above the western horizon. Mercury sets at 7:32 p.m. local time. Venus, by contrast, is much higher in the sky — a full 29 degrees above ...

especially if the viewer does not know their way around the night sky. “If you wanted to see Mercury, you might get lucky around the evening, shortly after the sunset, in the twilight ...