Winter skies can be the clearest of the year and the richest in stars. Here are some of the constellations and planets to ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

They peak highest when seen from locations near ... of many bright and well-known deep sky objects. These objects are a fragment of the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, a huge star-forming ...

During or after the holiday season, people often ask me why I don’t tell stories from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Frankly, ...

Any clear winter night this month, look due south between 8:00 and 10:00 pm to spot the large “hour-glass” shape of Orion the ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

The Orion Nebula, as seen from Bago, Myanmar ... brightest nebula and is easily visible to the naked eye in the night sky — but it looks spectacular in a small telescope.

Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter will ...