Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter will ...

Summer nights mean late sunsets and lingering twilight, but January exceeds expectations with fine views of Venus, Jupiter, ...

On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star cluster, popularly known as the "Seven Sisters." The details vary depending ...

Increased conservation efforts and habitat preservation have helped the population rebound. The Hubble Space Telescope's image of NGC 3603 reveals a massive young star cluster formed about a million ...

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captures the star cluster Liller 1, a 30,000-light-year-distant system that began forming stars over 11 billion years ago. The open cluster Trumpler 14, located ...

NASA has drawn comparison between a celestial formation and a holiday wreath, referring to the recently spotted star and dust cloud cluster as a "cosmic wreath." "'Tis the season... to gaze into ...

Stargazers can celebrate the new year by looking up at one of the briefest meteor showers of the year. On the first five days ...

Jupiter lies in Taurus the Bull all month, below the conspicuous Hyades star cluster. Shining at magnitude –2.7, you won’t mistake it for any other object. Although Jupiter lies much farther ...