Jupiter and Sirius rise after dark this month, creating a striking duo that are obvious candidates for a modern-day ...

Enjoy a post-dinner stargazing session as the first-quarter moon, Saturn and the season's brightest stars light up the ...

The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with ...

As autumn nights fall, one of the most captivating sights in the sky is the constellation of Pegasus, the legendary flying ...

Any clear night this month is the perfect time to pull out those binoculars or your telescope to observe the Orion Nebula.

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

December for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Geminids meteor shower, as Greg Redern highlights in December’s ...

One of the faintest Zodiac constellations in the night sky is the constellation Libra, the Scales. Like most constellations, good luck seeing it for what it’s supposed to be. It allegedly outlines ...

As I stumbled over rocks through pitch darkness, following a guy I had just met online, I began to question my life choices. It was the middle of the night, and I was wandering through a remote desert ...

On this coming Thursday evening, after the Thanksgiving feast and the football games, take a walk under the stars, weather ...

Plus, the Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and the winter solstice arrives Dec. 21 at 10:03 a.m.

On a cool night in August, more than 100 people gathered in a dark corner on Frisco Main Street. The lights at the Frisco Historic Park were out. Phones were tucked away, out of sight. People lay on ...