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

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.

From meteor showers to a "Planet Parade" and a couple of stunning full moons, plan your summer evenings around these 10 ...

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

The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year.

It’s one of the most famous stars in the night sky. If you grew up with stories about navigation, camping, […] ...

After the sun arrives at its solstice point, it will begin to migrate back toward the south and the amount of daylight in the ...

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

The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you ...

The winter solstice occurs when your hemisphere tilts farthest away from the sun on its axis. The winter solstice marks the ...

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 ...

Tiny dots of starlight on a spectrum of brightness dotted every corner of the night sky in a celestial show that, for me, has only been rivaled by what I’ve seen in the middle of the American ...