During the first two weeks of March, Mercury will have an advantage in that it will be positioned not very far from the most dazzling of all the planets, Venus. In fact, we strongly encourage you to ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days later a young moon will pass near Saturn and near Venus as they cluster ...

Viewing the disk is best in early twilight. Follow Venus throughout the month ... By contrast, Mercury climbs higher in the sky. On the 28th, a slender, one-day-old Moon greets the planet.

Also, during March Venus will slide rapidly down ... the first appearance of a hairline sliver of a crescent moon appearing low in our western twilight sky is a sky signal by which the ancients ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

The full moon in February was dubbed the snow moon due to the heavy snowfall typically seen this time of year, according to ...

Stargazers can also glimpse a full moon and a bright Venus during cloudless ... should look west during twilight hours to see the planet shine in the darkening sky. On that evening, only the ...

Heads up, sky watchers, this week offers no shortage of celestial awe. The full moon will reach peak illumination on ...

Venus is now at its almost unbelievably brightest at a marvelous time when many other (though less radiant) planets and ...

“When it’s brightest, Venus appears as an eerily eye-catching beacon,“ EarthSky wrote. ”Many mistake it for a UFO. It’s ...