Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

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 ...

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

Credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern ... the evening sky. On the day of the new moon, Jan. 29, Venus is still a bright evening star, and when ...

September opens with Venus hosting winter constellations in the eastern predawn sky. West of the planet, the bright star Procyon, in Canis Minor, the little dog, rises at almost the same time as ...

Although Jupiter and Mars have been dominating the eastern sky ... Canis Major contains the brightest star in the sky, magnitude –1.4 Sirius, which marks the nose of the dog.

Sirius, the sky’s brightest star, is the dog’s head ... it flows upward from the southeast, fills the entire eastern sky below Orion the Hunter and plunges downward like a silent waterfall ...

Any clear winter night this month, look south between 8 and 10 p.m. to spot the large hourglass shape of Orion the Hunter. In ...