If you’ve been outside after dark recently, you’ll have noticed two very bright lights in the sky. Here’s what you need to ...

Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the planet and star will appear low in the east-northeast predawn sky, separated by ...

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

Now that the evening sky is Moon-free, it's time to aim for fainter targets, including 12th-magnitude Comet 333P/LINEAR.

However, the star's emergence will be visible to the naked eye in the dark sky. Places in the central part of the U.S. will have the best view of the event, with the occultation taking place ...

Skies above South Carolina sparkle with Christmas Star, meteor shower and supergiant Betelgeuse along with Jupiter, Venus and ...

"Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA, told ABC News. The "Christmas Star" may have historically been when Jupiter and ...

A Cold Moon hangs in the sky while Jupiter still shines bright and the Geminid meteor shower peaks in the sky this week.

It has been appearing in our night sky for a few nights now and will be shining brightly until at least Oct. 24. A3 is the ...

The comet lies close to several star clusters, including the globular NGC 6760 (5° southeast of the comet ... This is the brightest star in the sky and should stand out well, even as it sits ...