There are plenty of planets to spot during April, too. Mars, for example, will be high overhead in the south each evening. You can identify it by its salmon-pink color, and when you do, ponder for a ...

Alexandria Echo Press reporter Lisa Johnson and Astro Bob talk about auroras to come in this episode of "Minnesota Night ...

April skies feature close planet pairings, a bright meteor shower, and stunning views of the ancient star cluster M3.

A month ago, an ordinary cell phone camera captured this rapidly mutating auroral display a single degree south of the Arctic Circle. Decades of celestial tour expeditions make us place the Northern ...

In February, stargazers everywhere got to see a seven-planet alignment - called a "planetary parade." It'll be a while before ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

During evenings in April 2025, there are two bright planets visible. The departure of Venus has left Jupiter, in the west at ...

By nightfall at the start of April each year, there is a huge collection of bright stars in the western half of the sky. It includes seven stars of first magnitude or brighter, nearly half the ...

In the early part of the month, look to the west at nightfall for the constellation that topped the wintry array of bright ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

These next two weeks, the evening sky offers us arguably the best overall parade in months of moon pairings with bright ...

The month kicks off with Saturn in Pisces mingling with Uranus in Taurus on April 4. As two of the outer planets (further ...