The Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters," is a bright, bluish star cluster located near the constellation Taurus, visible to the ...

Sunrise and sunset • Rises at 7:31 a.m. and sets at 5:59 p.m. on the 1st (daylight saving time) • Rises at 7:03 a.m. and sets ...

But a rather sinister body, Algol, can also be seen and the best time to see it is during fall and winter, which Halloween ...

Every year, the Taurid meteor shower lights up the night sky from late October through early November. Sometimes called the ...

As yet another season of witches, goblins and jack-o’-lanterns bright slips into the ago, it is interesting to note that ...

Being that it’s Halloween this Friday, I thought it only appropriate to tell you about my favorite monsters of the night sky ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...

These are the opening lines of a famous poem by Li Bai, a renowned poet of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The Da Peng bird, a ...

What we celebrate today as Halloween has its beginnings in a thousands-of-years old Celtic tradition based on the Seven ...

McKinley Museum planetarium director Suzie Dills says her trip to the Galileo museum in Italy was educational, and a thrill.

The Taurid meteor shower, born from Comet Encke, delights skywatchers but may conceal hidden risks. Research led by Mark Boslough examines potential Taurid swarms that could increase impact danger in ...

The international tour brings U.S. and German leaders to sites of racial violence, urging honest remembrance of slavery and a ...