Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, November 7With a bright Moon still in the sky, we're a bit ...

Mercury switches from the evening to morning sky this month, while the giant planets dominate the night. The moons of Jupiter ...

Mercury will be in retrograde until Dec. 15, the last of four times it appears to move backward in the sky this year. For at least a portion of 2024, nearly every planet in our solar system has been ...

According to NASA, the planetary phenomenon will be clearest about 45 minutes before sunrise, low in the eastern sky and appearing near the moon. Venus and Saturn will be the easiest to spot — but for ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Prepare for a rare astronomical treat this Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, when a remarkable planetary alignment, often referred to as a "planetary parade," will grace the evening sky ...

August is full of celestial events, and this week marks a milestone for the 4.503 billion-year-old planet known as Mercury. Being such a small planet that lies close to the sun, Mercury can be ...

Mercury is about to reach its "greatest elongation west" of the sun, meaning stargazers will have their best view of the "swift planet" all year. Here's how to see it. When you purchase through links ...

The 2024 astronomical calendar is packed with events; And there's more to look forward to, despite the eclipse and auroras already having passed overhead. Nicknamed the "planet parade," a planetary ...

The elusive planet Mercury reaches its furthest point from the sun on Friday (Jan. 12), with this separation allowing skywatchers a chance to spot the tiny planet. The fact that Mercury is the closest ...

An artist’s interpretation of BepiColombo’s flyby of Mercury. Illustration: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) Thibaut Roger/Europlanet. On October 1, 2021, a ...