Gaze at the night sky enough, and you’ll begin to find all kinds of geometric patterns among the stars. Points are easy; so are lines connecting two ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin skywatchers can look forward to a dynamic week of celestial events, from the official ...

If there happen to be any lifeforms flitting about our solar system, let's hope they aren't camera-shy. The world's largest ...

Luckily, you don't have to travel out West to visit a Dark Sky Park because there's one with miles of scenic trails and ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.

A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from ...

This rocket comes up and then a few seconds later, the sound hits you. It’s just this roar and rumble, and then it’s a ...

On a trip to Maine’s Mount Desert Island, Dinaw Mengestu and his family had an ambitious, high-energy itinerary that included ...

Star of the Month: In June, in the northeast sky after it gets dark, the beautiful and bright blue-white star Vega ... sky site to see the Milky Way and a clear view of the horizon.

Uranus reappears in the morning sky before dawn ... is less than 4°, offering a clear view of the entire disk of the planet. It spans 17″, so check out any dark belts and look for white ...

So, that helps in making your own mind clear when ... directions, the sky would be dark. This is what the astronauts see, when they go above the Earth’s atmosphere. Now because of the atmosphere, the ...