The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

The planet in question is Mercury. Beginning now and running through ... and the amount of its surface illuminated by the sun will continue to decrease in the days thereafter.

Given it is not always common to see so many planets together in the night sky, planetary parades in alignment make for a unique event, according to NASA. Mercury has a rocky surface when ...

But its four planets are orbiting so close that its heat has created surface temperatures that would seem to preclude life, ...

California stargazers can spot an unusual sight in the night sky in March: a total lunar eclipse with a blood-red moon. In the middle of the month, the moon will become “a crimson orb” as the moon ...