Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has millions of fans worldwide who love the stunning images he captures and creates of the ...

September opens with Venus hosting winter constellations in the eastern predawn sky. West of the planet, the bright star Procyon, in Canis Minor, the little dog, rises at almost the same time as ...

A person shines a flashlight into the night sky on Feb. 3, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) Social media has been abuzz about the ongoing alignment of planets, with ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Earth’s nearest neighbors will be on display in the night sky and inside the Cincinnati Observatory during Nearest Neighbors Night on Saturday, February 1. This event will focus on the three celestial ...

Four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars — are bright enough to see ... a perfect straight-line alignment of all the planets will probably never happen. Rather, since the planets ...

From west to east, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will make an arc across Wyoming’s night sky in a parade ...