When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

Spica, located in the constellation Virgo, is known for its brilliant blue-white hue and is one of the brightest stars ...

Is that just a moon, or is it a supermoon? In short, a supermoon is a moon that looks exceptionally large and bright due to its position in the sky. Among the various sightings of aurora borealis ...

Known as one of the top meteor showers of the autumn season because of its bright fireballs, the Leonids started to be ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

The Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers grace the skies each year for more than two months and both branches will ...

The Taurid meteors will appear to originate from the constellation of Taurus, hence their name, but they will be visible from anywhere in the night sky. Taurus will rise in the eastern sky around ...

Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth ...

Here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in November 2024: ...