Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.

Often, on closer inspection, nebulae turn out to be much more than meets the eye. These smudges of color become troves of scientific data. Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle ...

Stargazers will be treated to overlapping meteor showers in April. From April 20 to April 26, both the Lyrids and Eta ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of ...

It lies just south of the Orion Nebula (M42). Yet another pair ties for ... This open cluster is an easy naked-eye catch, glowing at magnitude 3.3, even though it lies centered within the Milky ...

After boasting of her beauty to the Nereids or sea nymphs, she is punished rather harshly in my view by Poseidon and finds herself tethered to the north star Polaris to spin around it for perpetuity ...

Lunar eclipses are safe to view with the naked eye. The illumination of the moon ... a few other things in outer space such as the Great Orion Nebula and the Praesepe Star Cluster, according ...

Stargazers in Fort Frances and the surrounding area are in for a special treat this month as an annual astronomical event returns to our night skies. On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 10 p.m., the April ...

At the start of March, Mercury and Venus lay in the west after sunset. Now both have passed between us and the Sun into the ...

The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation ... Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its ...