Earth's atmosphere scatters sunlight, making the sky appear blue due to shorter blue light waves. Longer waves, like red and ...

A line-up across the southwestern sky on December 5, 2021, consisting of (L to R): Jupiter, Saturn and Venus (brightest), with Jupiter and Saturn in Capricornus, with its stars all visible here though ...

Mighty Jupiter stands high in the east at sunset, dominating the stars of Taurus the Bull as they begin to appear in the deepening darkness. Once the Sun is safely below the horizon, center your ...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest eastern elongation on Oct. 29, marking one of the best evenings to see the ...

Here's everything you need to know about this week's parade of seven planets. Getty Images A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets will line up and light up the night sky this week, folks. Just ...

Mercury and the star Mebsuta are visible in the west after sunset. Mars will be very close to the star Regulus on June 16th. Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 is visible in Leo with a medium to large ...

Brits have been left baffled by the sun tonight as it glowed red in the sky. As it was setting on Wednesday at around 8pm, the giant star glowed an ominous pink and red, before the sky also lit up.