With the bright Moon lighting the sky our focus is on easy-to-spot targets tonight, such as Albireo at the head of Cygnus the ...

In a rural sky dense with stars, the brightest serve as helpful signposts to orient yourself. ... Capella is a yellow star, like our own sun—and it’s the brightest yellow star in the night sky.

The night sky can be a wondrous place filled with stars, but there are some brilliant celestial lights that shine brighter than others. In busy cities, you may only be able to see the brightest ...

Betelgeuse, one of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky, will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse.

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

It is a glow-in-the-dark night sky too, colored a mix of green, yellow, and red. Its colors result from scattered sunlight, oxygen, and sodium from shooting stars.

The brighter the sky, the fewer stars you can see. If this trend continues, a child born today in a place where 250 stars are visible now would only be able to see 100 stars on their 18th birthday ...

Known as the “dog star” for its place amid the constellation Canis Major, Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. The vivid star is one of the nearest to Earth, at just 8.6 light-years ...