The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

Mercury — passes superior conjunction with the sun on Feb. 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 ...

Today’s photo of the day, “Glorious sky with sun rays shining over Lanai,” comes to us via Rosa Medina. Send your best photos ...

The Sky also finalized a trade with the Connecticut Sun involving veterans Rebecca Allen and Lindsay Allen, as per Annie Costabile of The Chicago Sun-Times. The full details of the trade include ...

Rather, since the planets all orbit along or near the plane of our solar system, called the ecliptic, they appear in a line across the sky. It's the same reason the sun always follows the same path ...