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

For the best chances, spectators should look at the sky as soon as the sun sets. That's when the planets will make a brief appearance. Tokyo started seeing the parade first, on Feb. 22 ...

As well as some of the darkest skies on the U.S. East Coast, it's also the nation's southernmost point. At 24.5 degrees north ...

and Colorado is set to achieve 12 state parks as Dark Sky certified this year. "When you look up and see three stars, you don't get that awe," said Reagan. "When you go out in a Dark Sky Place and ...

We are in a flat plane, almost like a pizza," Cerulli explained. "And so, when we look out in our night sky, all of those planets appeared to lined up on this arch in our sky, called the ecliptic ...

I was up before 4am to try to catch the lunar eclipse. The culmination of this bit of moon-watching was to be the blood moon.

When we look up at the night sky, how bright the planets appear depends on how close they are at that precise moment in time. At the end of February, all the planets will be close enough to Earth ...

Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system ... a software program like Stellarium to figure out when and where to look. To see the parade, find a dark place with a clear view of the western ...

Head out and find some bright planets in the evening this week: Mars, Jupiter, and Venus are all visible right now. Here's ...

However, any planetary alignment seen from Europa — any view of the night sky at all, for that matter — would look nothing like what we are used to looking up and seeing here on Earth.