You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious constellation this month is Orion. To find Orion, face south and look for Orion’s ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

Sirius is a middling bright star, but it ranks number 1 in our skies because, as stars go, it’s not very far away, only eight light years. Orion’s right foot star is Rigel, the seventh ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

Then look for ruddy Betelgeuse; it’s the upper left star in Orion, and bright Rigel is the lower right ... you’ll easily spot the dazzling star Sirius. It’s the brightest star visible ...

Al Jabbar is one of the Arabic names for Orion, the “Hunter", one of winter's most conspicuous constellations.

To catch February’s full moon at its roundest, get outside by sunrise on Feb. 12, because the moon sets in the west shortly ...

Rigel is the second brightest star in the winter football, and by far is the most powerful star. It is almost as bright as Sirius from our view, but is a lot farther away, around 800 light-years ...