Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

In the winter, the sunrise is in the southeastern sky and the sunset is in the southwestern sky – a much shorter path across the Northern Hemisphere sky – so days are short and nights are long ...

People in the northern hemisphere might have a chance to see a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event this year. The T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, is a recurrent nova that bursts about ...

The Earth is tilted approximately 23.5 degrees off a vertical axis, and because of this tilt, the most direct sunlight is aimed at the Southern Hemisphere during our astronomical winter and at the ...