June offers a celestial spectacle, starting with the Milky Way's rise in dark skies. Venus shines brightly in the early ...

Fireflies need darkness to communicate. Males perform an airborne dance while flashing their abdominal lanterns in a pattern ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

You may see something astonishingly beautiful — noctilucent ("night shining") clouds. These high ... When you see a shooting star streak across the sky, it's doing so in the mesosphere, where ...

Although there is no astronomical darkness from our latitude now, there are still plenty of things to see in the night sky.

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

It’s a rare chance to take an image showing contrasting colors — and an alternative to the seasonal cliche of the Albireo ...

The universe is huge, yet astronomers have looked at a few parts of the night sky ... trading whole stars with each other—as well as how stars form. The two Magellanic Clouds are known as ...

MORE: 'Zombie star' could flare up for the first time in 80 years on Halloween "Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA ...

A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the country including Boston, where viewers will have to hope for a break in the clouds to see the spectacle.

Assistant Professor Ylva Götberg is part of a large international collaboration that will study how galaxies and stars evolve ... with long all-sky surveys, UVEX will map the night sky for ...

At its peak, you might see two shooting stars per minute. The shower is already underway ... the clouds should thin out or disappear around Indianapolis. High level clouds may still make the night sky ...