The sight of the Milky Way stretching across the night sky is iconic, but some places offer a better view of it than others. These locations are among the best.

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The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in our night sky. As soon as it gets dark ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

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Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in the Pottsville night sky. As soon as it ...