Peaking in mid-August ( Aug. 12 ), NASA considers this “the best meteor shower of the year,” noting, “With swift and bright ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars ...

Each evening throughout the month of August, we can see the planet Mars in the western sky after sunset. To find it, look for ...

AMS says the best time to see any meteor shower is between midnight and dawn. According to NASA, the Perseids can be seen as ...

When the moon completes the first quarter of its journey around Earth this morning at 5:41 a.m. Its 90-degree angle between ...

This weekend brings us a brilliant display in the night sky. On the evening of August 3, just after sunset, the waxing ...

Is tonight a full moon? Here's when and how to watch zooming fireballs in the sky from Perseid meteor shower — this weekend.

Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...

With our satellite half-lit, several features stand out for easy observing tonight, including dark seas and bright craters.

Every summer, the Perseids meteor shower puts on a celestial display when fragments of space debris vaporize as they fall ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

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