If you’re an astrophile, you may remember earlier this year reading about a “once-in-a-lifetime” nova outburst that would ...

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A busy series of northern lights activity will soon come to a peak as the sun reaches the solar maximum stage in the coming ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

An explosion in space so massive you'll be able to look up and see it in the night sky without a telescope could ... very ...

Any night now, the astrophysicists tell us, a new star will appear in the night sky—about as bright as the North Star—the ...

What will look like a new star in the sky will actually be a nova — an exploding star, NASA says. Here's how to see it.

Bright stars in the summer night sky are a great skywatching target for those in the Northern Hemisphere. If you look at them long enough you should notice that they shine different colors.

Actually called Polaris, it's one of the best-known stars in the night sky, but few people can find it despite it being visible to everyone in the northern hemisphere at all times. Polaris is a ...

Most of the stars in this table can be seen from Earth's northern hemisphere with the naked eye. Exceptions, listed in italics, are those either too dim to see without binoculars or a telescope ...

Whether you want to see the northern lights or a meteor shower, astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi gives tips on stargazing from a ...

The ringed planet reaches opposition, Mars slips past the open cluster M35, and the original Cepheid variable shines in the ...