I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious ...

Sirius, the Dog Star, is difficult to ignore. Ostentatiously scintillating on the southern horizon right now, the “Searing ...

Easily visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude of 4. , where new stars are being born from the gas and dust. The intense ...

Situated 1,300 light-years away beneath the three stars of Orion’s Belt, the nebula is a hotspot for star formation, where young protostars emerge from dense clouds of gas and dust. Hubble’s ...

February stargazing is fantastic for many reasons, but this year there’s a one-two-three punch of bright planets adding to ...

With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

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 ...

To find Orion, face south and look for Orion’s Belt. It’s made of three moderately bright stars close together in a row and found high in the southern sky. Then look for ruddy Betelgeuse ...