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NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

I'm sure that most of us have noticed the "flickering" effect (as Ariana put it) of stars in our night sky. And we've all heard of the 19th century poem penned in 1806 by the British poet ...

The Canis Majoris, pictured here, appears close to Orion's Belt in the night sky. No. The North Star, called Polaris, is actually much dimmer than other stars, ranking about 50th in brightness in ...

It’s rare these days for astronomers to find a new class of object in the heavens. After all, we’ve been searching the skies for centuries, so all the easy stuff has already been found. Adding new ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The scattered waves create a pattern of bright and dim patches that drifts over ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Shape of Stars This is ... you need to collect stars to bring back the constellations in the night sky. The eighth big update brings crossplay, photo ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky.

the tired mother — each is a star or planet, and gazing at the sky connects them together in shapes and patterns, a map of my own constellations. The other night, after standing there on the ...

Whether it’s less than two dozen or over 100 meteors per hour, the Lyrid meteor shower is about to bring a vibrant show in the night sky. Starting Thursday, April 17, the Lyrid meteor shower is ...