The Pleiades are an asterism, or pattern of stars, as well as an open star cluster, made up of more than 1,000 stars. They are located in the constellation Taurus and are about 410 light-years ...

D uring the overnight hours of Feb. 5-6, the moon will pass through the famous Pleiades star cluster while one day past its half-lit first quarter phase. This will actually be the third time in ...

The moon has a date with the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters, in the early hours on Wednesday (Aug. 8). Both the moon and the Pleiades will be in the constellation of Taurus ...

The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Clouds of dust sweep around the stars, swaddling them ...

The Pleiades star cluster is also called the Seven Sisters. It may have gotten that name from the oldest story ever told. (Image credit: LazyPixel/Brunner Sébastien via Getty Images) ...

A cluster of stars 440 light-years distant that’s also called the “Seven Sisters,” the Pleiades (pronounced either “player-deez” or “plee-er-deez”) is one of the most entrancing ...

Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation ‘seven sisters’, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago ...

The Pleiades are often known as the “seven sisters” in some ancient cultures; presumably they had keener eyes, or darker skies. On the right, the Pleiades open cluster, and on the left, the ...

When the San Francisco Olympians Festival commissioned local playwright Marissa Skudlarek to riff on a Greek myth, she chose the Pleiades, the seven sister goddesses who transformed into stars ...

On the night of Feb. 5, a waxing gibbous moon will once again cover up the "Seven Sisters" of the famous Pleiades star cluster.