Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

Each summer, skywatchers around the world look forward to the famous Perseid meteor shower, but often overlook four lesser ...

"Once you do, it's just spectacular," said Aileen O'Donoghue, astronomer with St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this week.

This year, the Buck Moon follows Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun, by just a few days, ...

Many moonless evenings the next two weeks are a great time for viewing the best of the summer stars. You may also see the remarkable occurrence of two exploding stars ...

Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...

Many species use the patterns of stars to maintain their heading during night flights. Nocturnal migrants, like the Swainson’s Thrush, have demonstrated the ability to use star patterns for ...

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that simultaneous stellar explosions have been visible to the naked eye in recorded ...

By raising buntings in planetariums with manipulated “skies,” Emlen discovered that young birds learn to navigate by observing how stars rotate around the North Star (Polaris). The birds memorize the ...

A new star, V462 Lup, was discovered in the Lupus constellation, thanks to a sudden explosion in the Milky Way. The new star is most visible in southern hemisphere.