The moon makes for an excellent guide to see Mars in the night sky tonight. As the sun sets this evening (Feb. 9), the moon ...

This Valentine’s Day, step away from traditional gifts and make your celebration even more memorable with these unique ideas!

Something strange is happening in the night sky tonight—the Moon is climbing higher than usual, reaching one of its most ...

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Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

MY sister, Lilibeth, and I were looking at the stars one night and noticing how big Venus was over the tall tree fronting our porch. Not the western or eastern hemisphere of heaven but the massive ...

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

Elected officials in Breckenridge and Frisco are answering a call from a group of passionate locals who have been pushing for ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding stars — Type Ia supernovae — over the next decade. These brilliant explosions ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Anyone who reads this column regularly knows how much I enjoy seeing a conjunction of the moon and Venus in the western sky at dusk. I’m not sure why it’s ...