This time of year, Aileen O'Donoghue cheers and pumps her fists as the sun sets earlier and earlier. "I just love these early evenings! The dark reveals other things to us!" said O'Donoghue, ...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars shine together after sunset in early March, with Mercury at its best of 2026.

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Astronomers are often asked how the casual observer can distinguish planets from bright stars in the night sky. It is commonly thought, and with a certain degree of justification, that stars twinkle, ...

I absolutely love stargazing in January. It’s worth bundling up for. Pottsville nights are long with some of the brightest constellations of the year. This January though is really something: Jupiter, ...

Welcome to the 194th edition of 6 Storm Team Starwatch. This is a blog that will be updated every Friday and will list events happening in the sky. The next several nights the crescent Moon will be ...

Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn shine in a January planet alignment, NASA says. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...