Who among us, fail to notice the beautiful holiday decorations that are in full view at this time of the year? Streets, homes and stores are festooned in evergreens and arrayed in bright lights. As a ...

Mercury reaches its stationary point in Virgo today at 4 P.M. EDT. It will now begin moving westward, or retrograde, while also reducing its elongation from the Sun. The solar system’s smallest planet ...

Some physicists gaze at the stars in the sky, but Victor Tsai of Harvard University and John Wettlaufer of Yale University in the US gaze at the stars on frozen lakes. Such star patterns often ...

In our current evening sky we have one of the earliest soap-operalike stories, with two independent plots becoming intertwined into one. Perhaps we could call it the celestial version of "All My ...