Now nearing a close conjunction, Saturn and Neptune sit just to the right of the crescent Moon in the morning sky.

Neptune lies 20 AU (about 1.9 billion miles) beyond Saturn. On the 29th, it is exactly 1° due north of 1st-magnitude Saturn. It’s a great time to find the bluish disk of this distant world.

The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, ...

A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets will line up and light up the night sky this week, folks. Just after sunset on Feb. 28, 2025, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ...

Jupiter will be too close to the sun to see Tuesday, but it will move farther out in the dawn sky and on Aug. 12 will have a ...

By Deane Morrison During July the morning sky hosts three bright planets, each following its own path. As the month begins, ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

Sky-watchers will get a rare chance to see all the major planets in our solar system bunched together—with the moon joining the festivities, too, from June 17 to June 27.

Keep an eye out for June’s full strawberry moon, which will appear low in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as the Milky Way and multiple planets.