Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14.5 times each day as it images a single, circular strip of the sky. Given ...

These brightest stars have been a familiar sight to humans since ancient times, and we'll look at a selection of them here. Related: What you can see tonight in the night sky [maps] There are ...

As the night skies of May unfold, there’s a wealth of celestial events to witness, from the waxing Moon to the prominent ...

Science historians don't know exactly how Hipparchus measured the stars in the second century ... is still used by scientists to map objects in the sky. Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest ...

Researchers have reanalyzed the long-perplexing “Star Manual of Master Shi” and discovered that it could rightfully be ...

these outlines form a map of the sky with the eyes of the bull, birdman and bird representing the three prominent stars Vega, Deneb and Altair. Hanging over its shoulder is what appears to be a map of ...

Near their birth or death, stars reach extreme temperatures ... By kicking off its mission with long all-sky surveys, UVEX will map the night sky for the faintest UV-emitting objects.

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer – or SPHEREx – is a two-year ...

The bright constellations of winter have departed in the west, while the stars of spring are climbing the eastern and ...

With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May, especially as the new moon makes the skies dark.

And now, as the new space race heats up, spawning tens of thousands of satellites in orbit around the Earth, it only stands to make the visible night sky less so. Dimming stars are just one of ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky, may have a secret sunlike companion that drives the star’s mysterious six-year-long "heartbeat," new research suggests. When you purchase ...