Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.

Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, and Venus.

Keep your eyes on the skies from Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, and you might see an unusual cosmic convergence: two ...

The Perseid Meteor Shower won't peak until the second week of August, but there are a couple meteor showers this week you ...

As its name suggests, the Southern Delta Aquariids will be most visible to stargazers situated in the Southern Hemisphere, ...

The Southern Delta Aquarids and Alpha Capricornids are not the best showers of the summer, but they reach their peak on the ...

The African savannas provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stargaze in the clearest of the skies and with the least ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...