As the Northern Hemisphere welcomes spring today, the Southern Hemisphere is marked with the first day of autumn.

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

This dazzling planet, which dominated the evening sky from last fall on through the winter, has now taken ... but traditionally for Northern Hemisphere observers, morning apparitions of this ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

Now we are officially in springtime, the days are getting longer, and the nights are shorter in the northern hemisphere.

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

Thursday is the first day of spring, or the vernal equinox, in the Northern Hemisphere. During an equinox, the center of the ...

In the winter, the sunrise is in the southeastern sky and the sunset is in the southwestern sky – a much shorter path across the Northern Hemisphere sky – so days are short and nights are long.

This means that after months of being pointed away from the sun during the winter, the Northern Hemisphere will now begin pointing toward the sun, according to In-the-Sky.org. As the Northern ...