Find out what is visible in the night sky tonight, with guidance on locating Lacerta and other key constellations before the moon rises ...

An ordinarily dim star is making a brilliant appearance in the night sky after unleashing a powerful nova explosion, which has rendered it visible to the naked eye. The nova V462 Lupi was first ...

Catching the best Geminid meteor shower display requires planning, patience, and weather monitoring. Here’s where, when, and ...

As twilight fades on Friday, June 27, skywatchers may see “shooting stars” in the night sky as the Bootid meteor shower reaches its peak. A highly variable display, the exact number visible is unknown ...

As fall deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, a single point of light emerges low on the southeastern horizon. That star is Fomalhaut, one of the sky’s most uniquely positioned and historically revered ...

If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title would have to go to Fomalhaut. As night falls on October evenings, glance ...

As I stumbled over rocks through pitch darkness, following a guy I had just met online, I began to question my life choices. It was the middle of the night, and I was wandering through a remote desert ...

December will be an interesting month in the sky. Saturn will start the month almost straight south during the early evening ...

As spring advances, the night sky undergoes a quiet transformation. The familiar winter constellations fade toward the west, whilenew star patterns rise in the east and south, creating a celestial ...

On August 29th, the waxing crescent Moon is positioned in Libra, approaching Scorpius; observations of the globular cluster M71 in Sagitta are recommended, noting its relatively loose structure ...

The article describes using the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) as a reference point to locate other prominent spring constellations and stars, including Polaris (North Star) in Ursa Minor. It details the ...