Life is full of trade-offs, and stargazing is no different. Nights are certainly warmer, but you have to stay up much later ...

The Full or Flower Moon is on May 12. The Moon is Last Quarter, rising at midnight, on May 20. On the 22nd, the waning ...

The constellations overhead in May are dominated by Leo the Lion and Ursa Major the Great Bear. Leo is easy to pick out by spotting a large backward question mark known as the Sickle. The bright star ...

In advance of a star called T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) or the “Blaze Star” exploding in a very rare event, NASA is advising ...

Jupiter sinks into the sunset, ending a months-long guest starring role with the bright winter constellations. Those, too, are disappearing into the sun’s afterglow.

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

Yellowish-orange Arcturus is the fourth-brightest star in all the heavens and lies only about 37 lightyears from us. It’s an immense star — a red giant, we call it — about 25 times larger, and about ...

Spot the Big Dipper this May and use it to find Polaris, Arcturus, Spica, and Leo while stargazing the desert sky.

As May commences, Jupiter, resembling a luminous golden star within the constellation Taurus, shines high above the western ...

And Venus is putting on a brilliant show as the Morning Star, rising around 4am in the east. To its lower right – and 200 ...

Telescopes provide closeup views of Jupiter and its four largest moons discovered by Galileo, and of Mars. Although Mars is ...

Greetings! We’re losing Mercury from our early morning skies, but Venus and Saturn will appear quite close together this week ...