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

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.

Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

At 107, Alberta Bailey is one of Florida's oldest residents. Even her great-great-grandchildren attended her birthday party ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

Where are the bright naked-eye planets in July 2025 and when are the best times to view them?

Stargazers have plenty of night sky events to look forward to in July. After all the stunning celestial displays so far in ...

When night falls in Wadi Rum, the sky comes into view with a clarity most places lost long ago. Thanks to the desert’s isolation, elevation, and lack of light pollution, the Milky Way stretches ...