This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing ...

There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the December night skies. These long nights are blessed with some of the brightest constellations of the year. Bundle up, get ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This week, if you look high in the west-southwest sky once it gets sufficiently dark, you might ...

The characters of a celestial soap opera called "The Perils of Andromeda" are represented high overhead in our current early evening sky, with two independent mythological plots becoming intertwined ...

Gazing up at the moon, you can often be bewitched by its ever-changing shades of a silvery glow. The phenomenon of the moon appearing in different colors has intrigued sky gazers for centuries, ...

As the summer nights give way to fall, September brings a host of captivating skywatching opportunities. According to National Geographic’s coverage of the month’s most exciting celestial events, ...

Sadly, summer comes to an end this month, but the great news for stargazing in September is that there are still plenty of great summer constellations, and with the early sunsets you can get an ...

When it comes to locating objects in the night sky, how does one convey its precise position? The sky is divided into a scattered pattern of 88 constellations of various sizes and shapes covering ...

Backyard astronomers, rejoice. There's a celestial party in the sky this summer, and you won't want to miss the season's dazzling sights, as five planets shine so bright you'll be able to pick them ...

Jeff Glucker September 11, 2013 Comment Now! The Rolls-Royce Phantom came gliding into the world on January 1 back in 2003. Per the automaker, this happened at midnight. Fast forward ten years, and ...

When I was a kid, summers meant evenings outside, falling asleep while watching stars parade westward over my family’s corn and cotton fields in Northern California. My star atlas sat by my sleeping ...

A celestial romance and true story of discovery, Silent Sky by acclaimed playwright Lauren Gunderson opens at International City Theatre on August 25. Two low-priced previews take place on Aug. 23 and ...