When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

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 ...

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 ...

of stars in our night sky. And we've all heard of the 19th century poem penned in 1806 by the British poet, Jane Taylor, with the simple title of "The Star,": Twinkle, twinkle, little star ...

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 ...

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.

He spends many of his nights (all the way until sunrise) — whether at home in Florida or across the country — photographing wildlife and landscapes against the glowing backdrop of the Milky Way, ...

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.