Alison Klesman

Customise Consent Preferences Mercury lines up with Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon in the evening sky as the solar system's smallest planet reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun.

A delicate waxing crescent Moon creates an elongated triangle with bright planets Jupiter and Mercury in the evening sky.

Venus slips behind the Moon in a daylight occultation visible across the U.S. This evening, the Moon plows through the stars of the Beehive Cluster.

Our satellite sits near the Sickle asterism in Leo the Lion this evening, while Venus closes in on the Beehive Cluster.

Astronomical summer begins as Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter dominate after sunset and deep-sky treasures shine in the sky this week.

Saturn’s small moon Dione crosses north of the ringed planet early on the morning of June 19. Watch its progress in the dark sky before dawn.

The globular cluster NGC 5897 glows in Libra the Balance, a ghostly twin to the more famous M5 in Serpens.

Astronomical summer begins with a gorgeous lineup of lights in the evening sky, including three planets, two stars and the Moon.

This broad, bright emission nebula near the tail end of Cygnus the Swan is great for night owls up after midnight.

This bluish, oval-shaped planetary nebula in the constellation Hercules is small but easy to spot, even in beginner scopes.