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

Mars might be our next home, but Venus was our first obsession. In the 20th century, astronomers dreamed of oceans and jungles on Venus - until the Soviet Venera probes proved otherwise. Extreme heat, ...

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Here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in February 2025: If you've been outside just after sunset in the ...

Anyone who reads this column regularly knows how much I enjoy seeing a conjunction of the moon and Venus in the western sky at dusk. I’m not sure why it’s ...

On Jan. 17 and 18, Venus and Saturn, which have been shining ... east to west on that same imaginary track. From the Earth's surface, the planets always appear somewhere along that line, the ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

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During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

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From west to east, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will make an arc across Wyoming’s night sky in a parade ...