I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the weekend (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

When the sun sets on Friday, stargazers are about to have their best chance at seeing Mercury shine in the night sky in 2025. Visible to the naked eye, Mercury should be seen in the western sky at ...

While Mercury is often referred to as the most difficult planet to see with the naked eye because of how close it is to the sun, that won't be the case this month. According to the National ...

Mercury puts on its best evening apparition ... which is too close to the sun to be seen, reaching solar conjunction on March 12. Earth will pass through the plane of Saturn's ring system on ...

The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window ...

you may see a rare conjunction between Venus and Mercury — the two planets interior to Earth in the solar system — before they fully disappear in the sun's glare over the following nights.