When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Mercury is well placed in the SW evening skies the first two weeks of November, but is lost in its glare by Thanksgiving.

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

Saturn will fade even more in coming months as its rings close ... For dates and times of other star parties, and maps and ...

Morgan L. Cable, who has a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Caltech, has multiple team leadership roles on the Europa ...

This almost-full moon will occult Saturn from some parts of Asia and Africa, with full details and a useful map provided by In-The-Sky-org. Thursday, October 17: Full ‘Hunter’s Supermoon ...

Midway between these two planets, shining with a sedate yellowish-white glow in the south will be Saturn. During the late ... What you can see tonight [maps] Read more: Best telescopes for seeing ...

The growing trend of astrotourism continues to draw new travellers to the wonders of the night sky in places where light ...

Brilliant Jupiter rises at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and by twilight on Nov. 30. It can be found in the constellation Taurus at ...

Nov. 1-9 – Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS slowly slides upward from the bell-shaped constellation Ophiuchus into Aquila the Eagle ...