View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

Get ready for a celestial treat this weekend! Venus, Saturn, and a crescent Moon will align to form a smiling face in the sky ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

But industrialization has changed that, of course, by introducing light pollution that gradually erased the stars from view ... the Earth, it only stands to make the visible night sky less so.

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Tonight, let’s take advantage of the moonless dark to enjoy some deep-sky observing ... of the Moon passes between them and Earth from our point of view. Larger telescopes will show even ...

The Lyrids have graced the sky since April 17 and will hang around until Saturday, with the densest concentration of meteors ...

This year, storms and cloudy weather are in the forecast for parts of the United States that could spoil the view of the Lyrid meteor shower.

according to Earth Sky. Astronomers caution that the radiant is not necessarily a good guide for where stargazers should look to view the streaking meteors. In fact, looking away from the radiant ...

It only occurs a handful of times a year, when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, and partly obscures ... damage if you look straight at it without appropriate protection.

Cloud and storms may interfere with the view ... sky, according to NASA. Those resulting fireballs, better known as "shooting stars," are meteors. If meteoroids survive their trip to Earth ...