Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

The Sun always illuminates half of the Moon while the other half remains dark, but how much we are ... in front of Mars - rendering the usually bright planet invisible in the night sky from ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

Pyramid Lake: A popular spot for Renoites seeking a night of stargazing, the lake is less than an hour from The Biggest ...

Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a "mini planet parade" as Mars and Jupiter appear alongside a half-lit moon in ...

This evening, the roughly half-illuminated face ... the early-evening sky, with the Moon to its lower right, more directly below Castor. Once the sky grows dark enough, you’ll spot another ...

Amateur astronomers can also spot a plethora of planets and a full moon during select cloud ... lie down in a safe, dark place away from bright lights, and look straight overhead,” NASA ...

The first meteor shower of the year is here, with the Lyrids peaking late tonight into the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday.

which means it will appear about half-full on April 21, and won't rise until about 3:30 a.m., leaving most of the night moon-free. That means meteors won't be obscured by bright moonlight.