The constellation Orion is perhaps the best known pattern in the night sky, rivaling the Big Dipper in fame, and the month of December is a great time for observers to reacquaint themselves with this ...

A fire is burning at the heart of one of the most beloved constellations. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) released the image Tuesday, offering a unique glimpse at this busy constellation. The ...

We’ll start out the week with a last quarter moon. It arrives Sunday morning at 6:02 a.m. If you’re up early look for it. If not look for the near-half moon Sunday night. Speaking of the moon, you can ...

Greetings! I hope you can go outside around 5:45 this morning and watch the sunrise because the thin crescent moon will be visiting Mercury in the claws of the Scorpion.

The Big Dipper, an asterism within the Ursa Major constellation, is readily observable from mid-to-high northern latitudes and its appearance varies throughout the year due to Earth's orbit and ...

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The first weekend of the new year will kick off with a full moon, although it will not glow quite as bright as other full moons throughout 2023. Stargazers can step outside on Friday evening to see ...

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 ...