Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

The nova V462 Lupi was first discovered on June 12 by the Ohio State University-led All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

When the sun sets and the lights go out, the sky comes alive in ways that feel almost magical. From desert horizons to ...

Then, around midnight, the Butterfly Cluster will be "well-placed" in the night sky, reaching its highest point above the horizon. To see this butterfly-shaped open cluster of stars, grab a pair ...

The visibility of the night sky in New Zealand appears to be following a similar trend. Between 2012 and 2021, the area affected by light pollution grew at a rate of 4.2% above the global average.

A "new star" is shining in the constellation Lupus thanks to an unexpected stellar explosion within the Milky Way — and it can currently be seen with the naked eye from parts of North America ...

All-Star guard Rhyne Howard had one of the best games of the 2025 WNBA season on Friday against the Chicago Sky. Howard led the Atlanta Dream in scoring with her 36 points.

The star at the peak is magnitude 2.2 Navi (Gamma [γ] Cas); the star at the valley to its lower right is similarly bright magnitude 2.2 Shedar (Alpha [α] Cas).

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...