Our satellite hangs out with the heart of the Scorpion, known for its vivid red hue as the Rival of Mars in our sky.

Following Saturn is Venus, rising in New York at 2:51 a.m. on July 25. Venus is in Taurus, and so bright that it is ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out during the evening of July 7 and observe the pretty bright Moon passing Antares, also known as Alpha Scorpii. Look sharp, ...

The hydrogen fusion by which stars shine does end at some point, but that process can take many millennia to occur. In other words, stars don’t just “go out” … at least not on a human time scale. Most ...

An excellent question but one that presumes that stars just go out at some point. That’s not true, however. The hydrogen fusion by which stars shine does end at some point, but that process can take ...

Immortalised in dozens of blockbuster classics since its opening in 1926, Route 66 symbolises freedom, top-down adventure and ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 4Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation (26°) from the Sun at 1 A.M. EDT this morning. You can view the tiny planet in the ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet during twilight time. Nearly a week after Fourth of July fireworks illuminate ...

But all of that extra attention has led to another remarkable find. As it turns out, Betegeuse isn’t alone—it actually has a ...

More recently, astronomers have proposed a theory for its volatile nature, which explains the star's seemingly erratic ...

"It appears that there is a preferred physical environment in which stars form when they evolve within these clouds." ...

In the sprawling Hydra constellation, 137 million light-years away, lies NGC 3285B—a dazzling spiral galaxy recently ...