I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

February stargazing is fantastic for many reasons, but this year there’s a one-two-three punch of bright planets adding to ...

The night sky is the window to the rest of our universe but it’s also great for lovers. It’s great being in the dark with the ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...

Already 50° high an hour after sunset, the bright, magnitude 0.1 star Capella stands high above Mars and to Jupiter’s upper left. This is the alpha star of the constellation Auriga, which sits ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

The Orion Nebula, a nursery for new stars, is showcased in this breathtaking image, with young stars and protostars shining ...

Here’s when you’ll see the next full moon, comets constellations and more. Venus will shine its brightest in February Stars get a lot of attention for shining bright, but planets shine ...