The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is ...

Who needs a bat when you've got two perfectly good legs? Emaarion Boyd ran himself into baseball history on Wednesday night ...

Motels have been a quintessential part of Australian culture for generations. But what was once the accommodation choice for ...

On Fridays this month, the UW-Milwaukee planetarium's "Stars in the Tropics" takes stargazers to cities near the equator for a different perspective on the night sky. While we’re certainly not ...

The Virtual Telescope Project It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's comet SWAN25F! Point your eyes to the sky because a newly-discovered comet is currently whizzing throughout our solar system and ...

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Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, is the brightest star in the sky. It’s twice as massive as the Sun. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, the third brightest and closest star system ...

A RUSSIAN company has revealed a plot to turn the sky into the world's biggest advertisement ... laser-light billboards when they look up at night. The satellite is a prototype, but Avant is ...

In late April and May, the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia will be opposite each other with Polaris (North Star) in between in the northern sky. (Illustration by the author) Most of us probably think of ...

And it limited Duke to 39.6% shooting from the field while holding the Blue Devils below 70 points for just the fourth time in 39 games. In the other three games below 70, Duke's defense was good ...

With the Moon below the horizon until 3:00 GMT during peak activity, conditions are ideal for witnessing these shooting stars against a dark sky. The Aquariids also make their appearance starting ...