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See The Night Sky's Most Beautiful Naked Eye Sight At Its Brilliant Best This Weekend

One of the jewels of the night sky, the Pleiades is an open cluster of seven bright blue stars that dominate the winter night sky. This week, it reaches its highest position in the night sky around midnight something astronomers call its annual "culmination." ....

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The moon will match up with Jupiter on Oct. 28

Jupiter will meet up with the moon on Oct. 28 in a stunning sky show. Then with a telescope, watch a moon's shadow on Jupiter on Oct. 29. ....

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Scientists Puzzled by Stars That Disappeared From the Sky

Vanishing Act More than 80 years ago, astronomers were doing a photographic survey of the night sky when something odd happened: three bright stars that had been there at one point vanished less than an hour later, never to be seen again. As Universe Today flagged in a recent blog, a not-yet-peer-reviewed study by an […] ....

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Orionid meteor shower, sparked by Halley's comet, to peak Friday night

Autumn's best meteor shower is about to create celestial sparks in the night sky just in time for the weekend. The Orionids will peak on Friday night into the early hours of Saturday morning with as many as 20 shooting stars per hour, the strongest meteor shower since the Perseids in mid-August. Meteors will start to appear around 10 p.m., local time, but will be seen in greatest numbers between 1 a.m. and dawn, according to the American Meteor Society. This is the time when the shower's radiant ....

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