The Orion constellation is home to some of the most luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy. When you purchase through links ...

On clear winter nights, three bright points cut a straight line through the southern sky, outshining the chill and, in raw ...

If you look at any star atlas published before 1930, you will see what appear to be random lines defining the constellations. Before this date, constellation boundaries had not been formalized. Modern ...

Located almost exactly halfway between the bright Virgo star Spica and Antares, the “heart star” of the constellation of Scorpius in this month’s Colorado Sky is a somewhat inconspicuous constellation ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Or is it a drone? It might actually be Orion’s Belt. On Friday, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan took to his X account, writing that he “personally witnessed (and videoed) ...

NASA has scheduled the launch for the Artemis II moon rocket for no earlier than Feb. 8. WTOP will have details on the ...

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February's full "Snow Moon" will be at its fullest on Sunday, Feb. 1, and will be best seen at moonrise. It will appear just beneath the Beehive Cluster, one of the closest star clusters to the solar ...

Without a doubt, one of the strangest constellations in the winter heavens is Auriga, the charioteer without a chariot, schlepping a mama goat on his shoulder and her kids in the crook of his ...

Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high in the night sky around Halloween The Pleiades, also known as the “Seven ...