Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

Winter skies can be the clearest of the year and the richest in stars. Here are some of the constellations and planets to ...

A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Mars will seem to disappear behind the full wolf moon Monday for many sky-gazers. Throughout January, also look up to see ...

And the night sky tonight obliges by presenting ... Nature offers us the two gifts of longest nights and a sky more transparent than usual. Newcomers to astronomy often assume that winter's ...

STARGAZERS may be able to catch the birth of a new star if they keep their eyes to the sky over the next few weeks. T Coronae ...

and at least a basic knowledge of the night sky so you can hop from star to star and constellation to constellation to find interesting things like star clusters, galaxies, and planets.

As soon as it gets dark, two bright lights become visible—the brightest in the southwest and an almost-as-bright light in the ...

This photo features the bright, pentagonal constellation Auriga the Charioteer, which is visible in the northeastern sky at nightfall in early January. It's one of 88 constellations in the ...

The current V2 Starlink satellite ... very biased towards the ground-based optical astronomy because that's our human experience with the night sky and they're the main kind of observations ...