India's diverse geography from high-altitude cold deserts to vast salt flats offers some of the most pristine "Dark Sky" ...

Earth's moon is both the brightest and the largest object in the night sky, in terms of apparent size, making it a ...

The constellation Ophiuchus represents the Serpent Bearer, a man wrestling a serpent, dividing the snake’s body in two parts.

The northern sky's greatest galaxy gets its familiar name from the northern constellation where it resides, Andromeda the ...

While two teams have ideas about what happened to yellow supergiant M31-2014-DS1, ultimately, it remains a mystery.

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, Chinese astronomers have investigated the structure of a nearby open cluster ...

The new Dobsonian telescope and free astronomy courses will help residents chart galaxies and their own cosmic curiosity ...

December will be an interesting month in the sky. Saturn will start the month almost straight south during the early evening in a dim part of the sky. The only reasonable bright stars nearby are the ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are shown at once: the noisy, showy Milky Way crowds the north with its starry ...

Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles away, but these make up only a tiny fraction of ...

One of the classic constellations of the night sky is Pegasus, the flying horse. The heavenly horsey is currently soaring in the southeastern early evening sky. The traditional interpretation of ...