Under optimal conditions, about 50 Eta Aquariid meteors can be seen per hour during the shower's peak. But light from the ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked eye sometime in the coming months. When it happens, the nova will ...

Look for the Leo half-moon high in the sky at sunset tonight. This waxing first-quarter moon marks a midpoint — positioned ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is peaking. Experts say you can expect to see 10 to 15 meteors per hour in ideal viewing ...

The Full or Flower Moon is on May 12. The Moon is Last Quarter, rising at midnight, on May 20. On the 22nd, the waning ...

The constellations overhead in May are dominated by Leo the Lion and Ursa Major the Great Bear. Leo is easy to pick out by spotting a large backward question mark known as the Sickle. The bright star ...

The Aquarids, a meteor shower famous for its speedy balls of space debris that streak across the night sky, is peaking soon. Here's when to see it.

Mars will skirt the edge of M44, also known as the Beehive Cluster. Mars will pass within a mere 37 arcminutes of this star cluster. Look to the South at 9:00pm. A simple pair of binoculars will ...

May's Flower full Moon is a micromoon because it occurs during apogee, when the Moon is at its farthest point in its orbit of Earth.

Friday, May 2, presents a perfect opportunity to catch the mighty ice giant Neptune close to the planets Saturn and Venus in ...

The Eta Aquariids major Class I meteor shower can be seen just before dawn on May 4. In the Fluvanna area, the shower will produce about 10-30 meteors an hour. Unfortunately, the moon will be in its ...