If youre ready for a taste of summer, look no farther than the dawn sky. The constellations in view at first light are just what youll see as night falls in July and August. Scorpius is low in the s

Two beautiful objects team up this evening: the Moon and the Pleiades. The little star cluster is close above the Moon. Binoculars will help you pick out some of its brighter stars through the moonlig

Scientists are finding so many moons of the solar systems giant planets that they can hardly keep up with them. By the end of last year, Saturn was in the lead, with 146 confirmed moons. Jupiter th

Stars come in a whole spectrum of colors, from icy blue to deep red. But our eyes can see the color in only a few stars most of them are simply specks of white. Thats because most stars are too fai

Planetary scientists may see many descriptions this week that are similar to this one:Return to MimasBlow up the Death Star (moon) andFind hidden oceans.Thats from a presentation about one of S

Sometimes, you can have too much of a good thing. That was the case with a constellation that was created thousands of years ago. It was so big that astronomers eventually split it apart.Argo Navis

The Moon is nowhere in sight the next couple of days. Thats because its new it crosses between Earth and the Sun, so its hidden in the Suns glare. But coastal residents will definitely feel its

The Big Dipper is on the move. Not just its nightly circle around the North Star. And not even its shifting position from month to month. The stars themselves are moving through the Milky Way Galaxy.

The Sun is building toward the peak of its magnetic cycle, probably sometime this year. Thats when it produces more sunspots, flares, and giant clouds of charged particles. All of those can have an e

A nearby star has one of the largest families of planets yet seen an even half-dozen. Only two other known exoplanet families are bigger. But this system is different from the others. All of the pla