The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Have you ever seen the closest planet to the sun? Usually lost in the sun's glare — so in the daytime sky — from our point ...

The line the sun traces across the daytime sky, called the ecliptic, aligns with this plane, so when the planets appear in the sky, they all appear roughly along the ecliptic. It isn’t a perfect ...