Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

This type of explosion is known as a classical nova, which occurs in a binary star system when a white dwarf pulls in gas ...

A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from Earth.

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

All Creatures Great and Small star Nicholas Ralph has shared some photos from the set of season six. The Channel 5 period drama is currently filming its next batch of episodes in Yorkshire ...

Kelsey Plum 'Too Small' celebration, explained: Why Sparks guard taunted Sky star Angel Reese's height David Suggs Two of the WNBA's most talked about talents jousted with one another on Sunday night.

A composite of star photos, made in Joshua Tree during a dark-sky photography workshop, lead by Desert Institute on Sept. 16, 2023. (Julia Carmel / Los Angeles Times) Follow the star trails ...

The multitude of stars that join our planets in populating an evening sky are fairly anonymous. The brightest star, and the nearest to earth are hardly household names the same way Orion's belt is.

Nearby in the sky, the Hyades star cluster is an older cousin to the Pleiades, dating back around 625 million years. More mature star clusters lack the zest of their younger cousins, as their ...

The new Milky Way dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects. Here, a low-resolution image of the data, right, is overlaid on an image showing the full sky.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A galactic photo shoot has captured more than 3 billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest sky surveys ever.

Kelsey Plum 'Too Small' celebration, explained: Why Sparks guard taunted Sky star Angel Reese's height David Suggs Two of the WNBA's most talked about talents jousted with one another on Sunday night.