The sun arrives at the December solstice at 10:03 a.m. EST on Dec. 21. This is the farthest south the sun gets in the heavens; it begins its six-month return northward at the moment winter begins in ...

As the final month of the year begins, early evenings offer just one naked-eye planet. Fortunately for us, that lone world is Saturn. The ringed planet lies high in the northwest as twilight fades, ...

Early November presents Mercury and Mars in the western twilight sky, featuring a conjunction on the 12th and a close proximity to Antares before their mid-month disappearance due to solar proximity; ...