On a clear night, the moon you gaze upon looks the same as it looked for the first humans that walked Earth—the same ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin skywatchers can look forward to a dynamic week of celestial events, from the official ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

Summer arrives for northern observers as the Moon visits Venus, Uranus, and Mercury. Plus: globular cluster M15, double star ...

A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...

June offers a celestial spectacle, starting with the Milky Way's rise in dark skies. Venus shines brightly in the early ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Skywatchers across central Wisconsin can look forward to a spectacular week of celestial activity, including a bright planetary ...

On Thursday (June 26), a very slim crescent moon will appear between Mercury and the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini — Pollux and Castor — causing a brief ... through the daytime sky as ...

Afterward, from the 26th through the 30th, we will again see a Waxing Crescent Moon in our evening skies. See the Moon line up with Mercury and the bright stars Pollux and Castor just after sunset ...

Mare Crisium, or the 'Sea of Crises', can be spotted on the night of May 30 as an oval-shaped dark patch on the moon's northeastern limb, close to the terminator — the line that separates day from ...

As its name suggests, Polaris lies directly over the Earth’s North Pole ... and the twin stars Castor and Pollux in Gemini. The Moon is nearby on 3 May; and on the next evening Mars brushes ...