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 ...

The shining Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83) in Hydra checks almost every box an amateur astronomer could desire.

Astronomers measure distances to the stars in terms of light years, units that combine time and distance. One light year is the distance light travels in one year; so if you look at a star ten ...

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 ...

When it explodes, it will be in the top 50 brightest stars in the night sky, astronomers say. "It's going to be one of the brightest stars in the sky," Schaefer said. A conceptual image of how to ...

But I believe there also are other stars gracing the winter sky that are just as beautiful--for instance Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, and the three stars in Orion’s Belt. While feeling ...

“The juxtaposition of a beautiful starry sky against a breathtaking landscape makes it pretty hard to take a bad photo.” Astrotourism is traveling to places — sometimes remote locales — where it’s ...