A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 — and you can easily find it in the night sky.

As soon as it gets dark, two bright lights become visible—the brightest in the southwest and an almost-as-bright light in the east. What are they?

The problem is that stars are fairly dim; a problem compounded by the light ... takes to create the incredible images of the night sky we see in textbooks. In principle it’s simple: just take ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and climbs up past Saturn. In the dusk glow, you may be ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

Light pollution has long troubled astronomers, who generally shy away from deep sky observing under full Moon skies. The ...

Visible as a dim, fuzzy object to the naked ... Often referred to as the “evening star,” Venus is the third-brightest object in the sky after the sun and the full moon. A little higher and ...

In November the Milky Way arches high across the mid-evening sky from east to west. At its eastern end, winter constellations Orion, the hunter; the Gemini twins; Taurus, the bull; and Auriga, the ...