Al Jabbar is one of the Arabic names for Orion, the “Hunter", one of winter's most conspicuous constellations.

Red supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse and Antares are the astrobiological ... the better they can understand our own solar system and other solar systems like it. Healy and colleagues took ...

You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious constellation this month is Orion. To find Orion, face south and look for Orion’s ...

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and climbs up past Saturn. In the dusk glow, you may be ...

It won't be back in our neighborhood for another 62 years. Happily — or not — such pieces of interplanetary rubble are hardly rare in the solar system. "Essentially, they're leftover crumbs ...

Serving as his right shoulder is the supergiant star Betelgeuse, which shines brightly ... Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system and the only planet NASA has sent rovers ...

Use a wide-angle lens to capture the entirety of Orion against a clear, dark sky, and you may capture the colors reddish Betelgeuse ... solar system. However, it's only when the geometry has the ...