In January, stargazers will be able to see four bright planets, the close dance of Venus and Saturn, Mars at opposition, and ...

Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s called a planetary parade. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the naked eye in January and for part of February.

Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, ...

Colorado pastor Will Duffy’s obsession with the flat-Earth conspiracy theory began with a longtime friend’s post on Facebook. A quick direct message led to a months-long debate between Duffy and his ...

G3 (ATLAS) is now visible in the post-sunset night sky. It's best seen in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's visible north of ...

A celestial event 160,000 years in the making will grace the night sky this week, as Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) makes its rare ...

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

T Coronae Borealis will brighten 1,000 times in 2025 to become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946.

Have you ever wondered why minimal trans-oceanic flights exist in the Southern Hemisphere? Looking at a map, it's easy to see plenty of large bodies of water, such as the South Pacific Ocean, South ...

Summer nights mean late sunsets and lingering twilight, hardly a recipe for great night-sky observing. But this January ...

In addition to the annual parade of star pictures or constellations passing above our heads each night ... sky. The perpetual chase of Orion and Scorpius (the hunter and the scorpion) across the sky ...

Summer nights mean late sunsets and lingering twilight, hardly a recipe for great night ... southern sky. I’ll return to them in future columns when they climb higher in the evening sky. This ...