Aptly as Valentine’s Day approaches, February is the month to see pink-tinged Mercury hovering above the horizon at sunset...

The roiling, fiery disk that is our Mother Earth’s life-giving star whipped out a gigantic filament a couple of days ago that lashed out like a dragon tail, as NASA’s scientists ni...

By any name…. January’s full moon will be bright and fly high...

Human beings have long navigated by the stars...

The moon and Jupiter are gearing up for an inauguration show of their own: On January 21, the day Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, Mother Earth’s satellite and the sol...

A newly noted comet is rocketing toward the sun, and by the time it gets near Earth at the end of 2013, it may very well outshine the full moon, astronomers say...

Now that the Mayan apocalypse (so called by everyone except the Maya) has come and gone, we can once again scan the skies without trepidation...

At 6:12 a.m. today, the earth’s North Pole was tilted as far away from the sun as it ever gets...

Amid all the apocalyptic predictions and real-life threats such as climate change, it is easy to be overcome with fear, dread or hilarity (after one too many meme cartoon send-ups ...

The belief held by many that the world is going to end on Friday December 21, 2012, is yet another in the long list of misconceptions of Indigenous Peoples and does no one any favo...