This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and the ...

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

The new moon phase will leave the night sky especially dark, offering a rare and excellent opportunity for observers to take ...

The quirks of light moving through gas are the cause of stellar twinkling, which can be a bane—and sometimes a boon—for ...

Strawberry moon will be at full illumination June 11, the latest of the full moons tied to Native American tradition.

How to see multiple phenomenons happening in space over the coming days. A trifecta of stargazing events could be visible in space in the coming days. In addition to the crescent moon and the ...

From ancient stars ... up the night sky when the ,Lyrid meteor shower returns in April, according to NASA. Amateur astronomers can also spot a plethora of planets and a full moon during select ...

“The Starry Night” pictures outsized twinkling stars and a crescent Moon amid a swirling chaos of azure sky. Like many impressionistic paintings of the time, it uses “broken color” — the ...

Jupiter is glorious in the west after sunset, outshining all the stars. The crescent Moon lies near the giant planet on 30 April. The night sky at around 11pm this month (Nigel Henbest ...

An illustration of the new moon of May 2025 near the sun on May 27. | Credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night The new moon ... it easily recognizable near stars that twinkle. On May 28 the conjunction ...