On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Jan. 21 (morning): The Moon, just shy of last quarter, is 3½° to the lower left of Spica in Virgo. Jan. 23 (evening): Mars, ...

The constellation Taurus ... cluster should be nicely framed within the field of view. Then spend some more time with it as you crank up the power and split half a dozen or more double stars.

Venus will pass within 2.6° of Alcyone, the brightest star in the Pleiades ... is a open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus about 440 light-years distant and a mere 100 million years ...

Here's a rundown of some of the more noteworthy sky events — including multiple meteor showers, occultations of Mars and the Pleiades Star Cluster, a "ringless" Saturn and the first total ...