As a space reporter for The New York Times, I follow what’s happening in the stars, including eclipses, meteor showers and ...

Starlink satellites orbit Earth around every 90 minutes, so you might be able to spot them several times in one evening. That ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have observed what they believe to be a never-before-seen companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, a pulsating red supergiant star in the shoulder of the Orion constellation. One of the ...

The Milky Way Galaxy contains an estimated 400 billion stars, with the faintest (M dwarfs) posing challenges to accurate counts. The Perseus Moving Group (Melotte 20), a cluster containing ...

Enjoy a post-dinner stargazing session as the first-quarter moon, Saturn and the season's brightest stars light up the ...

One of the faintest Zodiac constellations in the night sky is the constellation Libra, the Scales. Like most constellations, good luck seeing it for what it’s supposed to be. It allegedly outlines ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...

On a cool night in August, more than 100 people gathered in a dark corner on Frisco Main Street. The lights at the Frisco Historic Park were out. Phones were tucked away, out of sight. People lay on ...

Astrophotography often misrepresents the naked-eye appearance of celestial colors, as cameras capture saturated colors unattainable by human vision due to limitations in photoreceptor sensitivity. The ...

A rare astronomical sight is unfolding in the southern sky. Two exploding stars are shining so brightly that both can be viewed with the naked eye. It’s hard to predict how long these “fascinating ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Where have the stars gone? As a child, I’d joke with friends about stars. In our brains, the Milky Way was a candy bar, not a celestial beacon that lit nights. Our teachers reminded ...