Stargazers in the U.S. will find the waxing gibbous moon above the southwestern horizon as the sun sets on July 3, with Spica ...

Look for them around 10 p.m. local daylight time, roughly one-quarter up in the western sky. In addition to their closeness ...

Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

A rare nova, V462 Lupi, is making a bright appearance in the night sky in the Lupus constellation. Here's what to know.

To put Venus' -4.4 apparent magnitude in perspective, look to Sirius, the brightest (actual) star in the sky, which only shines at a magnitude of around -1.6 (a full moon clocks in around -12.6).

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

Here is what will be in the skies over the Space Coast this coming week. Live updates: SpaceX liftoff now 2:28 a.m. ... All planets appear as a bright "star" that does not twinkle.

This stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope depicts a star-forming region called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short. Characterized by its "wings," it is classified as a bipolar nebula and ...