The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a striking celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S. But unless you're willing to wake up before ...

You know, after decades of pointing optics toward the sky, I consider myself a knowledgeable observer. But while researching ...

The sky is a vast, empty place. Nothing up there but birds, planes, clouds — and some low-flying satellites. Virtually everything that goes up there must eventually come down since birds need to eat ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is identified as the brightest deep-sky object, with a magnitude of 0.1. The list comprises 26 deep-sky objects ranked by brightness, primarily open clusters, stellar ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...