In the early evening on March 5, watch our satellite pass by a famous bright star cluster: the Pleiades (M45).

Observing the sky in March presents a trade-off: it coincides with the beginning of Ramadan this year, and as the month ...

Surrounded by vast clouds of dust, the Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, form a stunning star cluster located 445 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Westerlund 1 is one of the ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic ...

The mass of these objects is less than 13 times that of Jupiter. They are often observed in young star clusters like the ...

Two planets stand side by side as the evening twilight continues to delight and colorful stars shine in the sky this week.

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

One of this month's skywatching highlights is a total lunar eclipse on the night of March 13 — or more precisely, on the morning of the 14th when the Earth gets between the moon and the sun, and we ...

The noon Sun stands directly over Earth’s equator at 5:01 a.m. EDT on March 20. This point is the vernal equinox, or simply ...

To the right of Jupiter you’ll find the Seven Sisters, a pretty little star cluster more formally known as the Pleiades ... magnificent constellation of Orion, the hunter.

Tips and Tricks: Continue to follow the diagonal line up the sky, above the northeast horizon, to see Uranus near the Pleiades star cluster. While Uranus typically requires a telescope for viewing ...