If you're hoping to catch a shooting star ... city with no visible moon. Since the moon is almost always at least partially ...

Astronomers say better catch this week's supermoon. It will be a while until the next one. This will be the year's fourth and ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

KU astronomy hosted a a stargazing and planetarium event on Nov. 7 at Slawson Hall for students, staff and faculty to spend a ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

The Taurids meteor showers illuminate November nights, offering stunning fireball displays visible even under moonlight.

The Taurid meteor will make its annual appearance in the midnight sky starting Tuesday through Nov. 12, with the "shooting ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two sister meteor showers are already flashing across night skies — and will peak a week apart. The ...

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

An astronomical phenomenon could grace the night ... the moon will be about 79% full, which will drown out visibility, ...

Meteor showers are usually most visible between midnight and predawn hours. It’s easier to see shooting stars under dark skies, away from city lights. Meteor showers also appear brightest on cloudless ...

Because of this rapid movement, when the sun sets on the following (Tuesday) evening, the configuration between Venus and the moon will have radically changed. In fact, the moon – whose illuminated ...