April 2025 brings exciting skywatching events including the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower, rare views of Mercury at its ...

This orb's steep plunge out of the evening sky and sudden vault into the dawn heavens were spectacular in March and now it begins April rising just over an hour before the Sun. But by month's end ...

For that event, you had to get up before sunrise, because all of the planets were visible at dawn ... line in the sky called the ecliptic. The ecliptic is also the path the sun appears to take ...

After putting on a great show in our evening sky since the fall of 2024, dazzling Venus puts on a spectacular showing for early morning risers for the balance of 2025.

After this weekend, Venus transitions from an evening into a morning star, gradually reemerging low in the dawn sky. Venus reaches greatest elongation 46 degrees west of the sun on June 1 ...

We’ll check out the planet — now a morning star as well, visible before dawn — later in the week. Tonight, let’s take advantage of the moonless dark to enjoy some deep-sky observing.

Comet SWAN25F is speeding toward the Sun for a dangerously close approach ... it will begin to appear in the dusk sky rather than at dawn during the first few days of May. It’s not clear ...

But if the comet survives its closest approach to the sun, it would make its transition from the dawn sky to the dusk sky during the first days of May.” The best time for most of us to see it ...