If you’ve been outside after dark recently, you’ll have noticed two very bright lights in the sky. Here’s what you need to ...

Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the planet and star will appear low in the east-northeast predawn sky, separated by ...

Why is space so dark despite all of the stars in the universe? The question of why space is dark, even though it is filled ...

"Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA, told ABC News. The "Christmas Star" may have historically been when Jupiter and ...

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

With their eyes fixed on the sky, the ancient Greeks formed constellations through noticing shapes in the stars.

"We're watching and waiting." The highly-anticipated "guest star" of the night sky has yet to deliver its grand performance — but we have an update. For a quick recap, astronomers and stargazers ...

The Orion constellation, one of the most recognizable star patterns ... brighter due to the position of the earth in the night sky as well as clearer high-pressure evenings in the Northern ...

The stars hanging over ... certified as a “Dark Sky” community. The Thousand Hills State Park in Kirksville, Missouri, was certified this week as an Urban Night Sky Place, which validates ...

Enter these 4K night-vision digital ... nocturnal animals or navigate late-night hikes with ease. Stargazers? They’ll love using these to scan the night sky for cosmic wonders.

Leetzow was among members of the Stars and Chicago Sky organizations, the National Women’s Soccer League and organized labor representatives to give testimony Monday to the Illinois House of ...

One of the last of the year’s major meteor showers is expected to light up the night sky this weekend ... appear to radiate from near the bright star Castor in the constellation Gemini.