By Deane Morrison As the summer stars move into prominence in the evening sky, the spring constellation Leo, the lion, slinks ...

The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and the ...

Cygnus the swan flies tonight. Deneb, the brightest star in the constellation, whose name means “tail” in Arabic, is two ...

Astronomers watched as a galaxy with the forgettable name SDSS1335+0728 suddenly sprang to life when its massive black hole ...

Despite what you may believe, the brightest star in the night sky isn't the North Star, although it's probably the most ...

Vladimir Putin met with students, graduates, and teachers of the Sirius Educational Centre, as well as laureates of the ...

As spring advances, the night sky undergoes a quiet transformation. The familiar winter constellations fade toward the west, ...

The quirks of light moving through gas are the cause of stellar twinkling, which can be a bane—and sometimes a boon—for ...

From meteor showers to constellations, here's everything you need to know about observing the summer sky using the unaided ...

Alex Cooper, creator and host of the megahit podcast “Call Her Daddy,” will be the subject of a new Hulu docuseries titled ...

But it can be a much different story when we speak of the bright stars, especially in the case of the brightest one of all, Sirius. Its very name appears to be derived directly from the Greek word ...

The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and Wisconsin sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only month of the year we can enjoy both of them at the same time in the early ...