Mars shines brightly this week as it reaches opposition, appearing golden-red in the sky near Jupiter. Look for it in the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Look to the east and west after dark this week, and you’ll quickly see two very bright “stars” in the evening sky.

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

Jupiter shines brighter than any star in the sky at magnitude -2.0 ... Lowell astronomers and educators will share spectacular live views of Jupiter and Saturn through observatory telescopes ...

However, if the skies are clear, about 25 shooting stars — some of them particularly bright fireballs that can momentarily light up the sky — may ... and regular Live Science contributor ...

"Stars don't do that. They rise and set, and they don't sit in the sky." Such an event would surely have been seen by others at the time, too. Although novas are reportedly quite rare, you'd still ...