Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

Jamie Cooper. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) Venus reaches its peak brightness tonight, shining like a beacon in the western sky just after sunset. This celestial “Evening Star” is impossible to ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

9 and enters the evening sky. By Feb. 19, only 9 degrees from the sun, Mercury can be seen at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes after sunset, about 3 degrees up and 15 degrees left of due ...

We have the full Snow Moon to look forward to in the week ahead. And thanks to fortuitous timing it will look equally "full" to the unaided eye two nights in a row, on Feb. 11 and 12. That's because ...