The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window narrows as the Sun sets later each day. Mars is past its best, but remains ...

Also, during that final week of April, use it to locate Saturn ... and reliable Jupiter remains prominent for the first half of night in the western sky. Meanwhile, Mars continues to cavort ...

Venus, Saturn and the moon will form a triple conjunction, appearing to look like a smiley face in a sky. Here's how and when ...

Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a ...

Dragging the trash barrel to the curb, I look up at the night sky, and my current self is instantly tethered to all my past ...

Above the great sheath of stars that defines the ship’s keel is a ragged circle of stars. That’s Vela the Sails, though there ...

April marks the last time to see Jupiter at its best before its observing window closes. On Tuesday evening (April 1), Jupiter will shine at a magnitude of -2, located around 40 degrees above the west ...

The rotation of the moon and other planets provides a natural rhythm and framework for understanding time, nature and human ...

Monday - Look for Mars and Jupiter in the Western sky around ... Weekend - Look for Saturn in the eastern sky before sunrise, about the same time as Venus but lower in the sky.

In February, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Mercury lined up in the night sky in a rare planet ...

Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky ...