As spring advances, the night sky undergoes a quiet transformation. The familiar winter constellations fade toward the west, ...

Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

The bright constellations of winter have departed in the west, while the stars of spring are climbing the eastern and ...

May's full moon is called the flower moon in reference to the blossoming springtime flowers. Here's how and when you can spot ...

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

May’s Flower Moon closes the chapter on a series of micromoons in 2025. The first two appeared in January and February – each ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

Incidentally, one way that you can tell the difference between a star and a planet in the night sky is that planets do ... And yet, we are now approaching mid-spring, seemingly well past the ...