Right now, an extraordinary and rare event is happening in the southern sky: two novae, or stellar explosions, can be seen ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" —scientifically known as novae —are currently visible to the naked ...

A rare nova, V462 Lupi, is making a bright appearance in the night sky in the Lupus constellation. Here's what to know.

The month that brings the anniversary of the lunar landing also features great meteor showers and Manhattanhenge's second act ...

As summer deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, a familiar constellation rises with the galatic core of the Milky Way each evening: Scorpius the Scorpion. One of the 12 zodiacal constellations, Scorpius ...

It’s between these two famous dippers that the dragon winds its way across the northern sky. Look for its string of stars that begins nearly between the Big Dipper’s pointer stars and Polaris.

Any location in the southern hemisphere, close to the celestial equator, will see the northern constellations, but they will be upside down, from that perspective.