During July, magnitude 5.8 Uranus can be spotted as a blue-green speck in binoculars and as a small 3.5 arc-seconds-wide disk ...

Combined with a distance of just 8.7 light-years, that's why it outshines all the other stars in the night sky. It was a familiar sight to the ancients, who knew it by various different names in ...

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

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 million times brighter. The shining explosion is visible to the naked eye and ...

Star Walk 2, $3 for iOS and free for Android with in-app purchases, uses your phone's sensors and GPS to show you a map of the night sky in real time, pinpointing the location of stars, planets ...

The brightest star in the night sky is the Sirius star. According to NASA, it is over 20 times brighter than our sun and twice as massive, though it might not appear that way to the naked eye.

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

On any clear night, find the stars of the Big Dipper high in the northern sky. Trace the Big Dipper's handle of stars in a curve to Arcturus, a bright, reddish star above the eastern horizon.

A prehistoric map of the night sky has been discovered on the walls of the famous painted caves at Lascaux in central France. It is a map of the prehistoric cosmos According to Dr Rappenglueck, these ...

Stars Are Vanishing From the Night Sky. Here's Why A phenomenon called "skyglow" is stealing our celestial view, and the impact is far more dramatic when observed by the unaided human eye.

NASA launches Psyche mission to metal-rich asteroid 08:53. One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of ...