Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...

I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited ...

Even though humans have been looking at the night sky for millenia, not everyone sees the same sky. Not even the ...

Polaris, which lies roughly 430 light-years from Earth, marks the end of the Little Dipper’s handle. Alternatively, it’s the ...

At dusk on a late October night in 1408, something mysterious lit up the skies above China. Ming Dynasty astronomers who ...

$4.70 Matariki - Matariki is the Māori name for the star cluster also known as Pleiades, Subaru or the seven sisters. The ...

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image of a frigid exoplanet—14 Herculis c—some 58 light-years ...

Regas first defines what a constellation is and then offers a short description of how to identify Orion’s shape. Following ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and ...

In ‘The Ways in Patterns’, cutting-edge tools present the grandeur and beauty of age-old motifs in engaging virtual ...

Skygazers are in for a treat this month with events including a star triangle, the summer solstice and a temperamental meteor ...

See how the YgiTK Northern Galaxy Lights Projector scores for design, functionality and performance in my review when I tested it out.