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

Photo of the constellation Cygnus with annotations from IAU and Sky & Telescope. Here is the non-annotated version. You've heard of the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere's night sky, but what ...

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 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This week is all about the full strawberry moon, named for ...

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 ...

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 ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...