The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window ...

Earlier this week, Venus and Mercury met up in the evening twilight, along with the crescent Moon. The Moon then made a close ...

Venus becomes the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, the Lyrids Meteor Shower takes place and the Moon has ...

After sunset on April 2, look for the crescent moon and Jupiter in the western sky. The duo will appear within a palm’s width ...

Venus reaches inferior conjunction at ... see two moons stacked in a north-south line just east of Jupiter — the northernmost moon is Europa, while the other is Ganymede. Callisto lies much ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons as well. While some TNOs could be called dwarf planets because of their ...

April marks the last time to see Jupiter at its best before its observing window closes. On Tuesday evening (April 1), ...

Higher up, you’ll find Mars close to the twin stars of Gemini, Castor and Pollux: the Moon is very close to the Red Planet on ...

The night sky in April 2025 will include a spectacular crescent moon near Jupiter and Mars, the Lyrid meteor shower, and the ...

Without question, the month of April belongs to Venus. This dazzling ... dusk you'll see a slender crescent moon sitting about 5 degrees to the right of Jupiter. Saturn is now a morning object ...

If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a "mini planet parade" as Mars and Jupiter appear alongside a half-lit moon in the southwestern sky. All three bodies will be ...

Liftoff! NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter Oct. 14, 2024 — NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with ...