Two meteor showers will dazzle the night sky this month, along with a brilliant super harvest moon starting this week. The Draconids and the Orionids are the two major meteor showers happening in ...

Being that it’s Halloween this Friday, I thought it only appropriate to tell you about my favorite monsters of the night sky – Draco the Dragon and the head of Medusa, with a hairstyle made of snakes.

If you’ve been following my column for a while, you know that there are many kinds of constellations in the sky. You also know that most of these look nothing like their namesakes but are simply ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Two studies appearing in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward ...