Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

From supermoons to a total eclipse to the national park’s biggest and best-attended star parties, these are the must-see celestial shows of the year ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

This is the last time the seven planets will appear together in the night sky until 2040. Here's when it's happening – and ...

At the end of February we will be able to see all of the planets all in a line in our Minnesota night sky! Here's when and ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

The Hubble Space Telescope on the right can see objects down to a magnitude of positive 26 or 27. Venus: magnitude -4.8 (brightest) Jupiter: magnitude -2.3 Mercury: magnitude -1.2 Mars ...

Mercury will be positioned to Saturn's right ... but two more can be spotted with good binoculars or a small telescope. A star chart or atlas will help pinpoint their exact locations in the ...

Mercury is low in the southeast sky about an ... Mars is in the East as it gets dark and has faded in brightness. In a small telescope, some surface features can be spotted and identified with ...

Chodas added that the actual size of the asteroid, which astronomers are trying to determine with follow-up observations using multiple telescopes, is currently highly uncertain. “If the ...