Mercury, the first planet from the sun, is about to stand out among the stars this week. But this brightness is not expected ...

Seven planets are on display in the night sky at the end of February, but some will be harder to spot than others. Here’s ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Tonight a total lunar eclipse will sweep the Western Hemisphere as the sun, earth and moon align. Called the 'Blood Moon', the reddish hue will be visible without special glasses or a telescope. NBC's ...

Tomorrow night, skywatchers across the Big Country will get a front-row seat to a stunning celestial event — a total lunar ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...

It rapidly zooms into the morning sky, reaching an angular distance of 15 degrees from the sun by month's end. Meanwhile, glowing brilliantly, well up in the southern and western sky is Jupiter.

Though sun halos can happen year-round, they are especially noticeable in the winter when ice-filled cirrus clouds are more ...

For the best chances, spectators should look at the sky as soon as the sun sets. That's when the planets will make a brief appearance. Tokyo started seeing the parade first, on Feb. 22 ...

Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system, the seven planets will fall within Earth’s line of sight at sunset, and will not be obscured by the sun. Viewed from above the solar system ...

It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation for why the sky is blue: Blue light from the Sun is scattered the most when ...

A clear, haze-free sky also helps. The remark about Copernicus is rather ironic, for he was the man who pushed hard for placing the sun and not the Earth at the center of our solar system. Although ...