Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

Veneto Gov. Luca Zaia was first to give an estimated tally for the Bezos/Sánchez bash: He told reporters this week the most ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 27The Moon passes 3° north of Mercury at 2 A.M. EDT. By ...

Regulus is a bright blue star in the constellation Leo, which is often called the 'lion's heart'. It regularly appears close ...

Our 50-something columnist joins the Parkrun faithful as he sets out to prove something to himself - and discovers a rare joy.

A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from ...

Somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, as the old poem goes, but on Sunday that somewhere seemed not to be in the District, where it was implacably overcast all the day long ...

The Moon passes 0.5° south of the magnitude 1.0 star Spica at 11 A.M. EDT. The pair hangs in the evening sky, located in the south two hours after sunset. They are now some 6.3° apart, with the ...

Noctilucent clouds can often be seen in the western sky about half an hour – and up to 90 to 120 minutes – after the Sun sets. They are usually electric blue or silver in colour, but sometimes ...

By the time the light of the setting sun reaches your eyes, most of the colors of light have been scattered out. The light you finally see is reddish orange. Violet light has an even shorter ...

So, you have these observational inputs and you would like to know what it is all about. So, the observations you collect form the subject of astronomy. And when you try to understand what is going on ...

What is the bright star in the east right now? Venus, the bright "Morning Star," shines brilliantly in the pre-dawn sky this weekend, close to a much dimmer Saturn.