Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

This is a good opportunity to get a feeling for just how fast the Moon is moving through night sky. Look each hour and you'll ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

What an autumn it’s been for stargazing all around the world. Between the frequent Aurora and Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and all ...

Saturn's rings can be seen even in a modest telescope or with heavier ... in New York the innermost planet will be so close ...

The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system.

On film, she memorably played Frankenstein's (Gene Wilder) assistant Inga in Young Frankenstein, the wife Richard Dreyfus leaves to meet aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the title ...