With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

August 2025 offers exciting skywatching moments including a close meetup between Venus and Jupiter, the Perseid meteor shower ...

The night sky is about to deliver a rapid-fire series of spectacles, giving stargazers three reasons to look up over just ...

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

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

First, let’s start with the good news. As with August stargazing any year, there’s still plenty of summer and great summer ...

Here is your August 2025 guide for celestial events. The year will feature 12 full Moons, plenty of meteor showers, four ...

A brightening Moon limits deep-sky options, but this cluster never fails to disappoint: M13, the great globular in Hercules the Strongman.

The ever-shifting phases of Earth's moon present a wealth of targets for amateur astronomers to explore, ranging from ...

August 19: Mercury will be at its best for viewing, east before sunrise. It’s tiny and easy to miss, so try using a ...

August’s full moon, known as the Sturgeon Moon, rises on Saturday night, glowing low in the southeast shortly after sunset.