Early December evenings feature Saturn in the northwest, displaying diminished brightness attributable to its greater distance from Earth and a narrowing of its ring system; telescopic observations ...

As the weather gets warmer and clearer skies return, make plans to stargaze over the next several months. Whether you are staying at home or heading out on vacation, your latitude location will play a ...

Humanity has spent literal millenia looking toward the night skies, tracking the stars that blazed against the darkness and finding images — constellations — out of the patterns they saw there. If you ...

The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...

A rare astronomical sight is unfolding in the southern sky. Two exploding stars are shining so brightly that both can be viewed with the naked eye. It’s hard to predict how long these “fascinating ...

Shannon Silverman, an astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode 6, she tells us about some summer constellations.

One of the zodiac’s subtler constellations comes into view on winter evenings, with the moon helping to point the way ...