Explore the wonders of the Northern Hemisphere's night sky with our guide to the best celestial sights you can observe with ...

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the diameter of our sun and 36.7 light years away. Boötes is chasing the Bears with ...

California stargazers will soon be able to witness a dazzling celestial sight composed of billions of stars. In late May, the ...

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

These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

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

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive ...

After a huge 2024 season, the star power in the WNBA is only growing. Because of superstars like Caitlin Clark and Angel ...

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

Chris Longson claims he's captured photos of a mysterious flying object flying close to an aeroplane while out in his back ...

Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner beamed as he met the newly elected Pope Leo in the Vatican. The world number one presented the US pontiff, himself a keen tennis player, with a racket after being ...