You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious constellation this month is Orion. To find Orion, face south and look for Orion ...

More than 70 years ago, astronomers were doing a photographic survey of the night sky when something odd happened: three bright stars vanished between shots, never to be seen again. Here's how it ...

At 8:52 that evening, they captured an image containing three stars close to each other. At 9:45 pm, a second image was captured of the same area. This time, the objects were nowhere to be seen.

The appearance this week of the three bright Summer Triangle stars — Vega, Deneb and Altair — marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's how to spot them.