The nova V462 Lupi was first discovered on June 12 by the Ohio State University-led All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

Four prominent celestial objects — the moon, a bright planet and two bright stars — will come together to form a "celestial ...

Many in the ancient world believed that it was the heat and light of Sirius that combined with that of the sun at this time of year to produce the especially scorching conditions of late summer — the ...

Anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) a plant native to Canada and the upper central U.S., thrives in full sun, which is ...

It won’t be long before we hear the TV meteorologist tell us we’re in the “dog days of summer” while offering no explanation whatsoever. If you’re like ...

The 1929 cathedral-like Art Deco structure, which dominated the then sleepy boulevard, was designed by father-and-son architects John and Donald Parkinson (also the visionaries behind L.A.’s City Hall ...

A new kind of stellar explosion, far brighter and longer-lasting than supernovae, may help scientists explore the secrets of ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

The globular cluster Messier 22 (M22) reaches its highest point in the sky around midnight local time, specifically for ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...