The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy ...

A 14%-illuminated waxing crescent moon will hang low in the southwest tonight, soon after sunset, still in Capricorn, with ...

Clark Planetarium offers free night sky and sun parties regularly. Morgan Saxton talked with Community Programs and Volunteer Coordinator, Misty Morris, to learn more about the events. She says the ...

A stellar two-fer: See two star clusters in the morning sky and bring a pair of binoculars. Last month I wrote about the constellation Orion. Using the three stars in the belt of Orion, follow the ...

This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing Saturn-moon pairing. December’s “cold moon”—seen here rising above Whitby Abbey in ...

The month brings a spectacular lineup of celestial sights—including a rare chance to see Mercury without a telescope and a "micro" new moon. A super “beaver moon” rises behind Monte Prena in Italy’s ...

As I stumbled over rocks through pitch darkness, following a guy I had just met online, I began to question my life choices. It was the middle of the night, and I was wandering through a remote desert ...