Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

More than 99% of Americans live under skies polluted by light. But dark skies at the Grand Canyon and more than 145 other ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

Some of the many wonderful highlights that we will encounter this month that will make it well worth your while to brave any cold weather that mother nature may throw at us include Jupiter at its best ...

Sunday, November 24 Venus lingers long after sunset in the last weeks of the month, now setting nearly three hours after the ...

Included in the list are the Geminids and Quadrantids meteor showers. They are two of the largest such events of the year, ...

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

New research reveals Earth likely had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago. Now scientists say this could point to ...

Get past the fake science, and the Taurid meteor shower foreshadows what could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.

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The Geminids are "one of the best and most reliable annual meteor showers," according to NASA, with up to 120 meteors falling per hour at its peak.

A rare cosmic alignment is taking place in the sky this week with Moon and Mars coming together. Skygazers will have a ...