The evening sky presents quite a show this month. The bright planets Venus and Jupiter shine prominently in the northwest as the sky darkens. It's best to look for Venus first. The brilliant planet ...

It doesn't happen often that Mercury ranks as the planetary highlight of the evening sky, but July is an exception. The solar system's smallest major planet reaches greatest elongation July 4, when it ...

Tonight is "blue moon Eve" (see the May 31 entry for more details). Late tonight, look toward the southeast to see one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Early March finds us in a dramatic lull as far as viewing naked-eye planets goes, with four of them being uncomfortably close to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. April evenings provide views of the two brightest planets, though only one stands out. Jupiter gleams at magnitude –2.1 and ...

April evenings provide views of the two brightest planets, though only one stands out. Jupiter gleams at magnitude –2.1 and dominates the northern sky as twilight fades to darkness. It lies in Gemini ...