A constellation is a group of stars that forms a recognizable pattern in the night sky, one we've given a name, usually after a mythological figure, animal, or object. There are 88 of them officially recognized, and together they map out the entire sky....
On Christmas morning 2021, a rocket lifted off from French Guiana carrying humanity's most expensive scientific instrument ever built, and for the next two...
No constellation is easier to find than Orion. Three stars in a near-perfect straight line, glowing steadily in the winter sky, have guided stargazers, sailors, and ancient mythmakers for thousands of years. Here's everything the Hunter's stars actually are, and exactly how to find...
When you look up at the evening sky right after sunset, you can often spot a brilliant point of light shining brighter than almost any star. That bright gem is Venus, our closest planetary neighbor. For centuries, people called it both the Evening Star...
Weve all grown up staring at it, feeling its heat, and building our entire calendar around its rise and fall, but ask most people what sort of star is the sun, and you'll probably get a shrug. Its just "the Sun," the one constant...