From 400 kilometers above the planet’s surface, NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a rare long-exposure photograph taken aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that is already sparking ...

Each evening will see the stars of the Summer Triangle embark on a lazy journey through the night sky, travelling overhead from their sunset position above the eastern horizon to end the night in ...

Libra and the Z stars are visible in the very low southern sky after evening twilight. You really need a good view of the southern horizon, one that doesn’t have much of a tree line.

It might be hard to see the stars from Columbus, but they'll be bright at the Arne Slettebak Planetarium at Ohio State University this summer. The university’s astronomy department has a new ...

Remember, the lower an object's magnitude, the brighter it is in the night sky. For reference, the human eye is capable of seeing stars with a magnitude of +6.5 or greater under dark sky conditions.