It was like a giant light bar,” reports a witness who recorded a video of a large luminous object floating across the night ...

Above the great sheath of stars that defines the ship’s keel is a ragged circle of stars. That’s Vela the Sails, though there ...

Betelgeuse is a red giant star that shines brightly in the night sky. It makes up one of the "shoulders" of Orion, one of the most famous star constellations.

Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Canopus, the ...

In February, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Mercury lined up in the night sky in a rare planet ...

There are plenty of celestial landmarks you can see with the naked eye, and this month, you can view Mars and four of Jupiter ...

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