Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

For a few days around this date, we can try spotting Venus in bright twilight both immediately before sunrise and right after sunset. It rapidly zooms into the morning sky, reaching an angular ...

In what’s being billed as a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event, a star in the Corona Borealis constellation could explode ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

On any given night, weather permitting, you can spot at least one bright planet in the sky ... which is slowly sinking lower in the sky after sunset as the month progresses.

March opens with Venus and Mercury visible in the evening sky ... because it is so bright, shining at magnitude –4.8 on March 1. It becomes obvious within 30 minutes of sunset.

SEATTLE — The next few nights we’re going to see a parade of planets just after sunset ... Looking up in the sky to the southeast you will easily see a bright object with a reddish color ...