I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

Mars will be exceptionally bright due to Mars Opposition. The Red Planet will be closer to Earth, allowing skywatchers a rare ...

The highly-anticipated "guest star" of the night sky has yet to deliver its grand ... which is a massive red giant close to the end of its life. This material spirals into an accretion disk ...

Bluffton resident Bill Gwynne, a serious amateur astronomer, spent 2 months in Namibia running stargazing programs, helping ...

XX Trianguli has massive starspots, over sun's entire surface area Starspots behave chaotically, unlike the Sun's predictable ...

New Jersey has had more than its fair share of colorful lights glowing in the night sky during recent weeks and months — some mysterious and some easily explained. Here’s a new one. And although it’s ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

Some people reporting drone sightings at night actually have been seeing conventional aircraft. Here are a few ways to tell ...

The Geminids are an astronomical show-stopper featuring red, green and blue icy debris streaking ... which is the brightest star in the sky,” said Faherty. The Amateur Astronomers Association ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. If you’ve never seen ... The component colors of blue, green, and red were obtained from images made at near infrared ...

The Geminids meteor shower, famous for its multicoloured streaks of light across the night sky, has wowed stargazers ... colours include white, yellow, green, red and blue. The colours are partly ...