Finally, it's warm enough for even thin-blooded observers (like me) to break out their binoculars and telescopes. If you're ...

The best news? Viewers in prime dark sky locations don’t need high-tech telescopes or even binoculars to stargaze this summer ...

Related: What you can see tonight in the night sky [maps] There are several reasons why some stars look brighter than others. Perhaps the most obvious is that they're all located at different ...

Credit: ESA/DPAC/Airbus DS Under ideal night sky conditions, stars appear as point sources ... all having measurable sizes, experience different impacts. Their images dance, distort and discolor ...

To an untrained eye, the night sky appears very much a mystery ... the light is bent in different ways, making the star appear to twinkle.

Vega moves in a different plane than the planets in ... like our own sun—and it’s the brightest yellow star in the night sky. Though it appears as a single point of light to the naked eye ...

One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse. The event should be visible to millions of ...

In daytime tests of the Pathfinder on 35 different stars of varying brightness and ... Exposure times must be very short to avoid the bright sky saturating (overexposing) the detector, and then ...

Polaris remains fixed in the night sky as Earth rotates, so this star is vital for navigation. The position of Polaris changes at different latitude positions. Here in northeast Ohio ...

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 ...

For us in northern climes, this only adds more luster to that part of the sky containing the beautiful wintertime constellations.” Compare all of this to the spectacular star-spangled skies of ...

Here’s how it works. A first-of-its-kind NASA mission aims to put a new "star" in the sky by the end of the decade to help solve a wide range of the universe's biggest mysteries, scientists have ...