A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from ...

The summer means longer days and shorter nights, which is not optimal for star viewing, but that does not mean it's impossible. Getting a good view of a beautiful night sky takes a little extra ...

It’s the brightest star in the night sky by far, shining at a magnitude 1.4. That puts it behind only our Moon, Jupiter and Venus in terms of brightness. What even fewer people know is that ...

Beginning to familiarize yourself with the night sky can feel daunting—with so many pinpricks of light above, parsing the constellations or identifying individual stars can be a lofty task.

If you’re a night ... winter stars still with us after dusk are Castor and Pollux, in the constellation Gemini the Twins. You can see them side by side in the low west-northwestern sky.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial ...

Assistant Professor Ylva Götberg is part of a large international collaboration that will study how galaxies and stars evolve ... with long all-sky surveys, UVEX will map the night sky for ...