On December and January evenings, Orion rises early and dominates the southern sky by mid-evening, making him the easiest ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation, and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

The Zodiac can be a gateway into the graceful movements of the night sky. And it turns out our view of those constellations has changed since they were first mapped thousands of years ago. OK. We are ...

January for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Quadrantid meteor shower, as Greg Redfern highlights in January’s ...

Imagining familiar images in the sky has always been an easy way to track the annual progress of the stars. Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” ...

A stack of Starlink V2 Minis, which SpaceX says are designed to fully demise during atmospheric reentry like the rest of the satellites in its broadband constellation. Credit: SpaceX The world’s ...

The term "constellation" has evolved from a loose grouping of stars to officially defined regions of the sky with precise boundaries, formalized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1930, ...

Constellations are fascinating to explore (even though astrology isn't a science). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...