The coming full moon – Hunter’s Moon for the Northern Hemisphere – is October 24. Will it be bigger, brighter, more colorful? All you need to know here.

Venus will sweep near the sun in our sky (inferior conjunction) on October 26. Astronomer Guy Ottewell uses his great skill at illustration to compare this passage of Venus with the last one, and the next one.

Details on the annual Orionid meteor shower. How and when to watch. In 2018, the peak morning is probably October 21. But start watching now, before dawn!

The South Taurid meteor shower rarely produces more than 5 meteors per hour, but it’s been known to produce fireballs. The shower is long-running. Watch for these meteors in October and November.

The zodiacal light is an eerie light extending up from the horizon before true dawn begins. Southern Hemisphere? Look after sunset!

Experts are now saying there probably won’t be a meteor storm this evening. But what if they were wrong and you missed it?

Sure, it’s easy to recognize, but sometimes the Big Dipper is low in the northern sky, or not visible at all. That’s the case now, in the evening. How to spot it.

Throughout October 2018, you can see 3 planets as darkness falls: Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. Bright Venus is heading into the sunset glare throughout October. It will pass between us and the sun before the month’s end.

The Harvest Moon comes on September 24 for the Americas and September 25 for most of the rest of the world.

How is it possible for an equinox sun to rise due east – and set due west – for everyone around the world? How can you visualize it? Illustrations here.

Are you interested in the famous 8-year cycle of Venus? The charts in this post – from astronomer Guy Ottewell – illustrate it. Also, weigh in on whether you think we should describe Venus as she or it!

You couldn’t see Earth from another star. From even the closest stars, the sun’s glare makes Earth impossible to see. And inside our own solar system? Spacecraft photos tell the tale.