This image of the Geminid meteor shower is the result of a fair amount of work consisting of aligning stars aligning and ...

or pre-sunrise (called the “Morning Star” phase) night sky. After all, it’s an inner planet to Earth, so it can never be seen moving across the entire night sky, as the outer planets do.

"Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA, told ABC News. The "Christmas Star" may have historically been when Jupiter and ...

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