Rare ‘smiley face’ planet alignment to light up night sky this week - Sky watchers anywhere in the world can see the ...

Once they drop below the horizon, they will no longer be visible, but the other planets will linger in the night sky. For the best view ... just as Earth does. Every planet orbits at a different ...

Related: Night sky, April 2025 ... Mars continues to recede from Earth, so consequently the planet continues to gradually fade. Beginning April at magnitude +0.4, by month's end this orange ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other ... Earth rotates on its axis every 23.9 hours, defining day and night for surface dwellers. This axis of rotation is tilted 23.4 degrees ...

Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere are in for a treat this week! The annual Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known, ...

One of the first major meteor showers of the year will coincide with Earth Day this year, offering a heavenly experience for ...

But the days that immediately follow it, April 23 through 27, will mark the eighth annual offering of a relatively under-the-radar series of climate events: Earth Night. Organized by a small ...