We all learned about conjunctions in grade school, a memory likely filed away with other early school memories, such as how to do long division and reciting multiplication tables through the number 12 ...

Wake up early to see the planetary pairing. From meteor showers to northern lights sightings, August has been an action-packed month for stargazers so far. And there's more to come. The two brightest ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the tattered remains of a supernova explosion known as Cassiopeia A in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers at Hawaii observatories are also monitoring supernovae, ...

A great sky event is coming up, and Michiganders have a really good chance at seeing this event. One astronomer is calling it a “Grand Conjunction.” A conjunction is when two planets come very close ...

A planetary conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – sometimes more – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. Both Venus and Jupiter are making ...

It is all happening in August! We are just days away from the peak of the Perseids, there is going to be a Black Moon later this month, and right now and for several weeks, you can see not just one ...

This holiday season, the most special thing to see in the sky won’t be flying reindeer pulling a sleigh, but rather a rare celestial rendezvous—a cosmic gift of sorts, many lifetimes in the making. On ...

Before one sets out to analyze the astronomical charts for the skies on any date (widely available now in computer programs), in relation to candidates for the star of Bethlehem, one must determine a ...