This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

This is the spectacular moment a shooting star flashed across the night sky in Scotland. Dramatic footage captured by Adrian ...

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

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

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this ...

Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

I just call them the Z stars. Libra and the Z stars are visible low in the southern sky after evening twilight. You need a good view of the southern horizon, preferably one without a tree line.

It is rarely cloudy, and when it gets dark, the Milky Way, so dense with stars, casts shadows of the giant silver structures across the dusty landscape. “It's majestic.

The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 P.M. local time from the same location. For a look ahead at more upcoming sky events, check out our full Sky This Week column.

Those with a stake in a local economic-development endeavor called Project Star likely are flying high today due to action by Mount Airy officials to provide incentives for that effort.