Look west at sunset to find the razor-thin crescent moon hanging less than 10 degrees above the horizon. Regulus will appear as a blue-white point of light roughly 1 degree to the lower right of the ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 18 Mars remains close to Sigma (σ) Leonis, Leo the Lion’s back foot, in the evening sky for several days. Shining at magnitude ...

Wake up early to witness the year's most dazzling planetary pairing as Venus and Jupiter close in for a celestial rendezvous.

Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the rocky planet during its evening apparition in the post-sunset sky.

Almost directly overhead in this month’s early-evening Colorado sky, an observer can view one of summertime’s more prominent ...

By the next evening, July 27, the moon will have traveled away from Regulus along the ecliptic — the path the moon, sun and planets trace through our sky — moving on a trajectory that will see ...