To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

A meteor shower, a planet sighting, and a full moon. Here's how to see all of space's eye-catching activity in July.

July promises a celestial spectacle. Skywatchers can see star clusters and meteor showers. Planetary sightings, including ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

Here's how to watch the July full moon, along with appearances from planets and constellations in the night sky.

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

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

The new moon occurs on June 25. A day later, Mercury reaches its highest point in the evening sky, and on June 27, the young ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds we bring you a special panel discussion on the future of commercial lunar exploration ...

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 ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...

#2. The Moon came from Earth. It didn’t form beside our planet, and Earth’s gravity didn’t capture it. The latest theory says ...