Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the new year dawns, the solar system's two largest planets put on fine shows in the evening sky. Saturn continues to dominate ...

Geography students should be aware of the distinctions between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The equator separates the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

As twilight fades to night these May evenings, Mars stands out in the northern sky. It begins the month near the center of Cancer the Crab not far from the magnificent Beehive star cluster (M44). The ...

Early March finds us in a dramatic lull as far as viewing naked-eye planets goes, with four of them being uncomfortably close to the Sun for observation. Fortunately, that fate doesn't apply to ...