In last week’s Starwatch, I described at least some of the celestial treasures waiting for you within the great constellation ...

Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

The New Year of 2026 began at the stroke of midnight today, and four minutes later the brightest star in the sky, Sirius in ...

In last week’s Starwatch, I described at least some of the celestial treasures waiting for you within the great constellation ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

The Winter Hexagon asterism is visible high in the winter night sky between late December and early March. By the end of ...

As the New Year 2026 launches, only two bright planets, Saturn and Jupiter, are visible in the entire night sky.

As the new year dawns, the solar system's two largest planets put on fine shows in the evening sky. Saturn continues to ...

Jupiter will cross the sky each night, 'hanging out' near Pollux and Castor, the brightest stars of the constellation Gemini.

NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year ...

During the night of Jan. 2 to Jan. 3, a full moon steals the show as it glides into Gemini. This will be another supermoon, ...