The constellations overhead in May are dominated by Leo the Lion and Ursa Major the Great Bear. Leo is easy to pick out by spotting a large backward question mark known as the Sickle. The bright star ...

The bright star Spica will appear to dance around Earth's moon on the night of May 9. Here's how to catch the celestial pair ...

Modest binoculars or a small telescope are all you need to see the Beehive Star Cluster. Appearing as a circular patch of ...

A bright Moon dominates the sky, passing two bright stars as Juno reaches opposition and Mercury dips toward the horizon in ...

Life is full of trade-offs, and stargazing is no different. Nights are certainly warmer, but you have to stay up much later ...

And Venus is putting on a brilliant show as the Morning Star, rising around 4am in the east. To its lower right – and 200 ...

Spica is a magnitude 1 star that helps to mark Virgo in the sky, as this constellation has few other bright suns to draw ... and Pollux (magnitude 1.2) in Gemini, to Mars’ lower right.

As May commences, Jupiter, resembling a luminous golden star within the constellation Taurus, shines high above the western ...

On May 1, use binoculars to spot Mars close to this open star cluster. Cancer sits between the brighter zodiacal constellations Gemini and Leo, with Mars being the brightest object in this area. Leo ...