The brightest planets in the night sky: How to see them (and when) Monthly skywatching information is provided to Space.com by Chris Vaughan of Starry Night Education, the leader in space science ...

A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

Welcome to another wonderful year of looking at some of the best night skies on the planet. We’re close enough to the equator that we see significantly more of the southern sky than is visible ...

“The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric scientists recently discovere ...

The physics of van Gogh's brushstrokes "The issue concerning 'The Starry Night' is whether its depicted flowing sky mirrors reality," Huang said. To figure that out, Huang and his colleagues ...