This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing ...

As the final month of the year begins, early evenings offer just one naked-eye planet. Fortunately for us, that lone world is Saturn. The ringed planet lies high in the northwest as twilight fades, ...

There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the December night skies. These long nights are ...

December in the Northern Hemisphere features Jupiter as the “Christmas Star,” the rise of the full Cold Moon — a supermoon — and the return of bright Winter stars.

Yet another Supermoon, the Geminid Meteor Shower and the Winter Solstice round out some of the biggest astronomical events to ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

On most nights, city skies hide the stars. Streetlights, buildings, and cars fill the air with artificial glow that drowns ...

A good satellite tracker app can turn your phone into a personal guide to the cosmos, showing you everything from the ...

On Nov. 28, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., the Dome Room will again open to the public to see the constellations. The presentation, ...

Starlink satellites orbit Earth around every 90 minutes, so you might be able to spot them several times in one evening. That ...

If you're a fan of stargazing, make sure you have your eyes to the skies this week. A leading astronomer has uncovered six brand new constellations over Britain – and they're all named after delicious ...

Bellerophon ultimately decided to visit Mount Olympus, the home of the gods, which was strictly off-limits to mortals. As ...