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

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

Jumping back in time, Thuban was positioned as a North Star some 4,700 years ago, as early civilizations thrived in ...

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

The Trail to the Stars provides visitors ... sanctuary through the International Dark Sky Association. Sanctuaries are the darkest night skies among different designations, including parks and ...

Most are open to campers or offer lodging—meaning you can spend the whole night looking up at the sky’s universal beauty—making them all that more important to protect. Stars illuminate the ...

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

Jones hopes that people who participate in the two different tours will walk away with a better experience of the night sky. “Whether it's the wonder you feel when seeing Saturn through a ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more impressive than ever.

the nova will be as bright as the North Star, known as Polaris, Preston Dyches, who hosts NASA's "What's Up," a monthly video series that describes what's happening in the night sky, wrote for ...

June opens with Jupiter, at magnitude -1.9, low in the western sky ... each night. On June 13 it is magnitude -0.8 and magnitude 0 by June 24. On June 24, Mercury will line up with the stars ...

Find out where to catch the Milky Way's appearance in the night sky as it becomes more visible with the 2025 summer ...