Stargazers can find many locations throughout the country to explore the celestial wonders of the night sky, which serves as ...

While colorful fireworks were lighting up the sky during the past several days, this week the nighttime glow will come from ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

The Thunder Moon or Buck Moon, as it’s called, the first full moon of the astronomical summer, will occur Thursday. On July ...

Astonished Scots have captured a meteor streaking and burning brightly across the night sky. The orange light and ...

The moon, the brightest and largest object in our night sky, isn’t technically a planet. That’s because it orbits around the Earth, not the sun.

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

An “International Dark Sky City,” Flagstaff—population 75,000—is a rare example of a town where the Milky Way is visible from the city center on a clear night.

But I always looked forward to the times when my family visited my Uncle Ron’s house in Mahopac, N.Y. The night sky in Mahopac — which is 50 miles (80 kilometers) due north of midtown ...

The Thunder Moon is also known as the Buck Moon, as Buck antlers rapidly grow during this time of year and can easily be seen ...