June offers a celestial spectacle, starting with the Milky Way's rise in dark skies. Venus shines brightly in the early ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

Even though humans have been looking at the night sky for millenia, not everyone sees the same sky. Not even the ...

Two days after its new phase, the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky while the summer constellations ...

There are two ways to use a star map. First, we can go from the sky to the map. Suppose, for example, we spot a fairly bright star halfway from the southeastern horizon to the zenith (the map’s center ...

Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in our ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...