Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

During July, magnitude 5.8 Uranus can be spotted as a blue-green speck in binoculars and as a small 3.5 arc-seconds-wide disk ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

The following evenings will see fleet-footed Mercury draw level with Jupiter, before rising above and away from the gas giant in the night sky as a result of the smaller world's tight orbit around ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between the moon and Mars.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich says the Perseid meteor shower is one of the "most dramatic" things to see in the summer's ...