The final night of 2025 is the perfect time to watch the moon close to the Pleiades, find the brightest star in the night sky ...

The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Skywatchers looking east a couple of hours after dark this ...

Discover the highlights of the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky with our guide to the top celestial sights to enjoy through binoculars between November 2025 and January 2026. Winter in the ...

What to see in the night sky on New Year’s Eve 2025, including the moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Orion, the Pleiades, and northern sky landmarks ...

The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...

On September 12, Mars will appear near Spica, while the Moon will pass near Uranus. The Pleiades and the Hyades star cluster will also be visible. Mercury will be in superior conjunction on September ...

On December and January evenings, Orion rises early and dominates the southern sky by mid-evening, making him the easiest ...

At around 10:00 p.m. local time on Sunday (Nov. 9), if you look low toward the east-northeast sky, you will see a waning gibbous moon, 72 percent illuminated, and shining prominently below it will be ...