Above Taurus News Today

Check out when our skies will offer the best views of our celestial neighbors.

Keep track of space flights, when to practice for the total eclipse of 2024.

Director of Hoover Price Planetarium lists big moments ahead for skies around the world.

Columnist also details Venus at greatest brilliancy and a possible comet in December.

Sky Shorts: Our Red Planet fascination Suzie Dills For centuries, humans have been intrigued by the bright, reddish object that wanders our night sky, the planet Mars. We loved it, feared it, and hoped for signs of life. We even convinced ourselves that Mars was like our planet Earth, with ice caps, seasons, similar rotation, and it is also a rocky planet. This made it easy to believe that life emerged on Mars and we could visit someday, due to its proximity to Earth. The first person to observ...

Sky Shorts: Space exploration and night sky highlights for 2021 Suzie Dills Although 2020 was a very difficult year for us, it gave us a chance to take time to observe astronomical highlights and night sky delights and view live broadcasts of historic launches. Many of us enjoyed the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and the surprise visit of Comet NEOWISE. We watched the launch of the next Mars rover, Perseverance in July. History was made with the NASA SpaceX Crew Dragon flight, the fir...