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In the coming days ahead, if any of your friends or relatives remark to you that they saw a "strange UFO" on the way to work ...
In the Southern Hemisphere the sky is "upside down" so by about 9 p.m. at the latitudes of Buenos Aires Rigil Kentaurus and Hadar, the two brightest stars in the Centaur, will be 28 and 32 degrees ...
appearing as a new star in the night sky for around a week. “We expect that [T Coronae Borealis] will erupt any night now, any month now,” Bradley Schaefer, a Louisiana State University ...
This summer, trade your city’s light pollution for some Milky Way magic. Whether you're a telescope geek or just love lying ...
Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...
Once the sky grows dark enough, you’ll spot another star — magnitude 3.6 Kappa (κ) Geminorum — just to the right of Mars. The Red Planet recently passed close to this star and now stands ...
Many of these clusters take up such large areas of the sky that there’s no way you can fit them into the field of view of a telescope. A good example is the beautiful Pleiades star cluster ...