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 ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

On this date, Jan. 29, 1859, American astronomer William Cranch Bond died. Cranch and his son, George Phillps Bond, ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Voyager 1 discovers tiny moon at Saturn. The Dodgers keep adding to their payroll. The two-year-old company raised its ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

Look to the southwest sky after sunset on Saturday, as the sliver of a waxing crescent moon nears bright Venus with Saturn ...