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 ...

Explore the wonders of the Northern Hemisphere's night sky with our guide to the best celestial sights you can observe with ...

California stargazers will soon be able to witness a dazzling celestial sight composed of billions of stars. In late May, the Milky Way Galaxy will appear as a vibrant band arching across the night ...

Against the black night, the darker-than-night silhouettes of Monument Valley buttes graced the horizon. Overhead, stars were ...

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

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

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 ...

Planetarium and Program Coordinator Katy Downing of the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center shares the visible planets and ...

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 ...