Now that we’ve marked the summer solstice, it’s the shorter nights of the year for the Northern Hemisphere that usher in a variety of celestial delights for sky-watchers who don’t mind staying up ...

Summer nights are the shortest but also the warmest — making them particularly appealing for skywatching. The upcoming months feature the year’s best meteor shower in August, the return of multiple ...

The night sky puts on the same basic show every summer: the Big Dipper overhead, a few planets hanging in the west, the occasional slow-moving streak. Most summers, that’s enough. This summer is ...

Guest columnist Katy Downing is planetarium and program coordinatorfor the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center. The summer night sky is a treasure trove of exciting objects to see with the naked eye.

The summer solstice occurs at this evening at 10:42 P.M. EDT. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, this marks the official beginning of the summer season. (For those south of the equator, of course, ...