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

A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first ...

Despite what you may believe, the brightest star in the night sky isn't the North Star, although it's probably the most ...

Vega moves in a different plane than the planets in ... like our own sun—and it’s the brightest yellow star in the night sky. Though it appears as a single point of light to the naked eye ...

Once a person asked his friend, "Which is the brightest star in the sky?" At first, his friend gave him a puzzled look (not everyone is an astronomy fan), but he still answered "The North Star." ...

MORE: 'Zombie star' could flare up for the first time in 80 years on Halloween "Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA ...

Polaris remains fixed in the night sky as Earth rotates, so this star is vital for navigation. The position of Polaris changes at different latitude positions. Here in northeast Ohio ...

The quirks of light moving through gas are the cause of stellar twinkling, which can be a bane—and sometimes a boon—for astronomers ...

Night sky for tonight: Visible planets, stars and more in this evening's sky In the early days of the solar system, planetary alignments were much more significant than they are now. "The orbits ...

is one of the brightest stars visible from Earth and one of the most observed celestial objects in the night sky — but it may not be alone. A new theoretical study proposes that Betelgeuse has a ...