Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

Earth reaches aphelion, its farthest point from the sun, at 2:54 p.m. on July 3. At that moment we’ll be 94.5 million miles ...

Meanwhile, Venus and Saturn — both beaming in the morning sky — welcome Jupiter into the fold. The gas giant makes its first appearance at mid-month in Gemini, low in the northeast about an hour ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Skywatchers in central Wisconsin can expect a stunning week ahead, with planetary pairings, moon phases and celestial ...

The bright morning star Venus crosses from Aries into Taurus, closing in on Uranus for a conjunction later this week.

Stargazing in July hopefully promises warm nights in Wyoming. The highlight of July evenings is the prominent band of the Milky Way arcing across the dark skies. Along the Milky Way, you’ll spot the ...

At the time of this writing, June 23, Jupiter was about half a degree left of the afternoon Sun and due to pass behind it ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

The globular cluster Messier 22 (M22) reaches its highest point in the sky around midnight local time, specifically for ...