Northern and Southern Hemisphere views of Venus from October 2019 to June 2020, and some insights on the coming view of Venus in the evening sky.

The stars are accessible to everyone, but where can you get the most from the night sky? Here are 10 great dark-sky places - mostly in the U.S. but also in Australia, New Zealand and Chile - for skywatching and stargazing.

You can think of the equinox not as a whole day, but as a point along Earth's orbit. Want to understand that better? Guy Ottewell offers some insights.

September 22 is the equinox. The word means "equal night." Days and nights are nearly equal now at the equinox, but not quite. Here's why. Also, we've got a new word for you, "equilux." It's the word for when day and night are, in fact, equal.

Learn what it would be like to travel to Chile - sometimes called astronomy's world capital - in this final report from Robert Pettengill with the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassador Program. Thank you for your dispatches, Rob!

Jupiter and Saturn have appeared close on our sky's dome throughout 2019, but they're due to get even closer in the coming months. Their conjunction will come on December 21, 2020. Here's how to watch them.

Robert Pettengill reports from the busy ACEAP (Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassador Program) annual trip, happening now in Chile.

Members of the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program are heading to Chile for a tour of its great observatories, July 27 to August 5, 2019.

Astronomer Guy Ottewell talks about his awesome book about some of our solar system's most beloved outer worlds. As always, he provides the best charts anywhere!

Some called it the "astronomer's eclipse" because it passed near major observatories in Chile. Check out these beautiful images of the July 2, 2019, total solar eclipse.