Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations and people take action to raise awareness of an inevitable aspect of ...

Following the much-ballyhooed “planet parade” this winter, the planets have been gradually dipping below the horizon, ...

NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

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

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, and a rare cosmic lineup. Buachaille Etive Mòr rises beneath the ...

Sometime soon, astronomers are expected a star over 3000 lightyears away to go nova any time now. When it does this star will ...

If you enjoy being outdoors on summer nights, June is a great time to start looking up! Even without a telescope, the skies ...

With up to 60 meteors per hour under perfect conditions during the peak night, the Eta Aquariids are considered a strong meteor shower, but only when viewed from the tropics and south of the equator.

I'm sure that most of us have noticed the "flickering" effect (as Ariana put it) of stars in our night sky. And we've all heard of the 19th century poem penned in 1806 by the British poet ...

Incidentally, one way that you can tell the difference between a star and a planet in the night sky is that planets do not appear to twinkle, or at least not very much. Unlike a star whose narrow ...