Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

Mars will appear to make an ultraclose approach to the moon on Sunday, after Jupiter had a turn earlier this week. Here's how ...

The volcanic moon disappears behind ... in a region relatively free of bright background stars. As a bonus, it is just 2.5° north of NGC 1746. Although classified as an open cluster, astronomers ...

Waxing towards a full Moon on Saturday ... close to the Hyades open cluster of stars. ForbesEasily Find The Bright Comet Next To The North Star This Weekend Using An Ancient TrickBy Jamie Carter ...

near the Beehive open cluster (M44). Of course, the Moon's bright light will likely wash out the cluster itself, but Mars is glowing at magnitude –0.9, quickly brightening as it approaches ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

Around midnight tonight in the east, a 55%-lit waning gibbous moon will be just a tenth of ... red planet Mars just a couple of degrees from bright star Pollux in Gemini, with the other “twin ...

Mars will appear just to the lower left of the moon, while the bright star Pollux will be a few degrees to the upper left of the moon, according to NASA. Times for the moon passing in front of ...

Stargazers can also glimpse a full moon and a bright Venus during cloudless nights in the middle of the month. Once the sun goes down on Monday, Feb. 3, six planets and the moon will line up ...