T his time last year, astrophiles were gearing up for a "once-in-a-lifetime" spectacle—only it never happened. The celestial ...

Skygazers have been waiting for over a year to see a recurrent nova that creates a temporary, super-bright star every 80 years or so. A new study suggests that it could finally happen this week — but ...

A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), popularly known as the "Blaze Star," is surely on the verge of a rare and dramatic brightening.

The total lunar eclipse will start late on the night of March 13 and will end in the early hours of March 14, according to NASA. An eclipse like this happens when the Moon, Earth and Sun all align so ...

Discover the brightest stars in the Earth’s sky. The brightest star in the sky is, of course, the Sun, the closest to us (150 million kilometers, or 8 light-minutes away) and the one around ...

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

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

Find out what caused the bright spiral in the sky last night (March 24) as many captured the SpaceX celestial display in the UK ...

Second on the list is the open cluster Hyades and the neighboring bright star Aldebaran (Alpha [α ... as the most well-known asterism in the night sky. But through even modest binoculars ...

Several Planets Will Be Visible in the Sky Tonight There will be multiple ... Venus, often called the “Evening Star,” will be the brightest of the group and should be easy to spot.

People across Bolton and Bury were left mystified after spotting a bright, almost dancing, light in the night sky.