You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

As we proceed into the heart of winter, this month’s Colorado sky displays a marvelous treasure trove of bright stellar gems ...

Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst, or FRB, to the outskirts of an ancient, quiescent elliptical galaxy.

Al Jabbar is one of the Arabic names for Orion, the “Hunter", one of winter's most conspicuous constellations.

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars. Sirius, Canopus, Alpha Centau ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

To find it, face east and find Orion the Hunter. To the right of Orion and below him, you’ll see a very bright star. That’s Sirius, the sky’s brightest star. Measure two fist-widths to the ...

To trace the winter football, we’ll kick off with Sirius, the brightest actual star we can see in the southeastern sky and the lowest star. Sirius is the brightest star in the constellation ...