Next year's events that are visible to Californians include a rare peek at Mercury; Venus and Jupiter cozying up; and a total ...

Mercury is the least explored of the four rocky planets in the inner Solar System. It wasn’t until 2011 that NASA’s MESSENGER ...

Our Butler night sky is getting lit up like a Christmas tree! Not only do we have all the bright stars and constellations of ...

Jupiter will be at its brightest and most visible in the night sky on Saturday. It will be almost as bright as Venus, and ...

As a digression from our usual fare on the n n -Café, here’s one of my favorites, about an early theory of the Solar System, ...

After a period of hardship, the lives of three zodiac signs begin a period of drastic improvement starting on Thursday. It's almost impossible to avoid having a great day on December 19 because during ...

As the largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter's grandeur is visible to the naked eye and through simple telescopes, ...

It’ll be the brightest starlike object visible for most of the night (after Venus ... Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune experience oppositions nearly every year, as Earth’s quicker orbit ...

The winter stars are like that. They're bright, sparkly and arrive "from a distance" low on the eastern horizon and gradually ...

But Venus is closer to the sun than Earth is ... By the way, this year’s opposition is possibly my favorite in the 12-year orbit of Jupiter because it is such a high one as seen from our ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.