I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was that rare type of comet that arrived with fanfare and lived up to the hype, serving up naked-eye views ...

For those of you who love to do some stargazing during the warmer months, now is a great time to get outside and look up.

NASA has revealed its top skywatching tips for May, and they include a meteor shower, lots of planets, and possibly a nova.

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked eye sometime in the coming months. When it happens, the nova will ...

Stargazers can see clusters of shooting stars and planets lighting up the California night sky in May. Stunning streams of comet dust will dash across the sky when the Eta Aquarid meteor shower ...

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

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 ...

Bright stars visible during May mornings include Arcturus in the west; Vega nearly overhead; with nearby Altair and Deneb completing the Summer Triangle; Antares in the southwest; and Fomalhaut rising ...

The Eta Aquariids major Class I meteor shower can be seen just before dawn on May 4. In the Fluvanna area, the shower will produce about 10-30 meteors an hour. Unfortunately, the moon will be in its ...

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

Jupiter and Mars shine in the evening, more planets gather in the morning, and the Eta Aquariid meteors join in.