A celestial compass rose will appear in the Coachella Valley's night sky on Friday, Feb. 7. Don't forget to look up at the night sky!

In 1024, Rajendra Chola dreamt up the grandest, riskiest, campaign ever planned by a medieval Indian ruler: an attack across the seas on Kedah (in today’s Malaysia). Both Rajendra Chola and the ...

Step back to take in the big picture. The giant’s asterism is a quadrangle delineated by four corner stars, which are, clockwise from top left, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix, Rigel and Saiph.

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 ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund ...

But be sure not to mistake it for Betelgeuse, a red giant star in the nearby constellation Orion. Orion is most easily identified by its "belt", marked by three stars that appear close together ...

When, in 2023, Star Wars: Ahsoka made it clear that much of the plot would hinge on finding missing pieces to the astronomical map, Star Wars fans heaved a collective deep sigh. Here we go again.

Above the Belt and to the left is Orion's right shoulder, the bright and ruddy Betelgeuse. If one looks to the left (northward) of Sirius, towards the East, one can see a whitish star, Procyon ...

A stellar nursery hidden in Scorpius, the Dark Tower is a glowing, wind-sculpted cloud of gas shaped by young stars’ ...

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...