Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 30The crescent Moon lies in Cancer this evening, just a ...

A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and more.

Starting on May 9, the Moon begins its journey towards full, with significant alignments to some of the brightest stars. On this day, Arcturus, Vega, and Capella dominate the night sky ...

Instead, they all appear along the same two-dimensional line in our sky. Sometimes they get lost ... and assigned special significance to the stars through which they and the sun appeared to ...

A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 — and you can easily find it in the night sky.

All stars appear to twinkle as their light gets ... A fixture of the summer sky for Northern Hemisphere viewers, Vega has associations with warmer months for many astronomers.

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

Constellations, groups of stars that allegedly make pictures in the sky, have been dreamed up by humankind throughout the centuries. Depending on the culture, they can be all kinds of things.

Here’s how it works. A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 — and you can easily find it ...