Stargazers in the U.S. will find the waxing gibbous moon above the southwestern horizon as the sun sets on July 3, with Spica ...

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

A new photo shows Mars shining like a red star in the night sky, alongside the blue-tinged "Heart of the Lion" star, Regulus.

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

It’s one of the most famous stars in the night sky. If you grew up with stories about navigation, camping, […] ...

What You Need To Know A "Christmas star" will be seen at night on December 21 for 1st time since the 1600s "Star" is Saturn, Jupiter lining up so closely that they look like 1 heavenly body from Earth ...

The event features a close conjunction between the waxing gibbous Moon and Spica (Alpha Virginis), the brightest star in the Virgo constellation and the 15th brightest star in the night sky.

As part of the citizen astronomy project, 'Kilonova Seekers', University of Warwick astronomers and public volunteers have made their first major ...

Every night, the sky comes alive with light, as ancient giants, blazing beacons, and cosmic neighbors illuminate night from every corner of the universe. Among the thousands of visible stars, a ...

It’s a common story. Artificial light emanating upward into the night sky creates skyglow. That glow is increasingly erasing stars from human view in North America.

On Thursday (June 26), a very slim crescent moon will appear between Mercury and the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini — Pollux and Castor — causing a brief line of lights in the ...

When night falls in Wadi Rum, the sky comes into view with a clarity most places lost long ago. Thanks to the desert’s isolation, elevation, and lack of light pollution, the Milky Way stretches ...