There are countless fixed stars in the firmament, but Sei Shonagon (c.966-c.1025) named only the Pleiades star cluster and ...

January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

Greetings everyone! There are three planets in your early morning sky. Mercury will be very close to the eastern horizon, two ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which began orbiting Jupiter on July 4, 2016, is the first spacecraft to peer below Jupiter’s clouds ...

This month, four bright planets greet you in the early evening. Venus and Saturn cozy up on the 17th and 18th, while Mars is at its brightest in the past two years. The Moon occults Mars for those in ...

In addition to livestacking, there are now “smart telescopes” available that will take and process images of the night sky as ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to Northern Hemisphere mid-northern ...

Orion climbs the sky during the early evening hours in January ... When the sun sets in the west, Mars rises in the east and stays out the entire night, shining nearly as bright as Sirius ...

And the night sky tonight obliges by presenting a beautiful ... At the same time, about halfway up in the southeast shines Orion, the Mighty Hunter. One of my mentors in astronomy was Dr. Fred ...

But the bright lights videotaped by Hogan in the night sky might not have been an aircraft at all, but the constellation Orion, some experts say. Hogan’s post on X now comes with a footnote from ...

An easy way to locate Orion is by pinpointing his belt ... believes that having a connection to the night sky is crucial. He recalled a time when California experienced a blackout and there ...

The truth is out there – about all those broken promises to better yourself and the odd case of the US politician and the ...