Read on to find out what's up in the night sky tonight (planets visible now, moon phases ... is provided to Space.com by Chris Vaughan of Starry Night Education, the leader in space science ...

Six planets are currently gracing our night sky, forming an arc on our celestial dome. From west to east: Saturn, Mercury, ...

Our star, the sun, on occasion joins forces with the moon to offer us Earthlings a spectacular solar eclipse—like the one that will be visible to parts of the United States, Mexico, and Canada ...

Most people haven't witnessed a true night sky. They may have seen photos of starry skies full of cosmic light, but in person, they only see sprinklings of stars and the moon on a clear night.

The moon reaches its farthest point from Earth tonight, known as apogee, making it appear ever so slightly smaller in the ...

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

They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent ... Researchers replaced the night sky in the painting with simulated supersonic turbulence, processed to resemble the original painting.

Jupiter and Mars are high overhead, and they’re both bright enough to stand out. Jupiter looks like the second brightest star and it’s almost straight overhead. Mars is high in the eastern sky and ...

This lunar phase sees the moon roughly between the Earth and the sun, making the moon invisible but the night skies free from ... because it will only be in the sky while it’s still bright ...