The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

M17, often called the Omega, the Swan, and the Checkmark Nebula, stars in a new image taken by the VISTA telescope in Chile.

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

What is a lunar eclipse? A lunar eclipse occurs during the full moon phase when the Earth is positioned exactly between the ...

The Vernal Equinox occurs on Saturday, March 22 to begin spring in the northern hemisphere. Days and nights will be equally 12 hours long, and the sun will rise due east and set due west on that day.

Over 2 decades of Chandra X-ray Observatory views of the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A have been time-lapsed. The Chandra team explains here. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart Congress averts government ...

3. Orion — The legendary hunter who became one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations 4. Phoenix — A majestic constellation rising from the southern skies 5. Andromeda — Named ...

Despite his huge stature Orion tends to slip away in the most inconspicuous of ways each spring, getting progressively lower on the horizon near sunset as the weeks pass and as a result, he gets ...

Jupiter is directly above the bright star Aldebaran, in the constellation Taurus (the ... opposite Polaris from the Big Dipper, is Cassiopeia, shaped like a "W" with the top of the W facing ...

The Heart Nebula, officially called IC 1805, is a cloud of gas and dust located about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel ...

Messier 76 in Perseus: For a challenge, spot the Little Dumbbell Nebula, a planetary nebula between the Perseus and Cassiopeia constellations. With an apparent magnitude of 12.0, you will need a large ...