Early risers are in for a celestial treat on July 5, when Venus appears as a bright 'morning star' alongside the magnificent ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

No need for a telescope: The right binoculars can help amateur astronomers get started Here are some suggestions from experts on what kind of stargazing binoculars to buy ...

The bright morning star Venus, moving quickly through Taurus, hangs in the predawn sky below the Seven Sisters open cluster.

Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster.

Astronomers have used a worldwide network of radio telescopes to resolve a controversy over the distance to the Pleiades.

A worldwide network of radio telescopes measured the distance to the famous star cluster the Pleiades to an accuracy within 1 percent. The result resolved a controversy raised by a satellite's ...

“You can see a few dozen with a binocular,” Hunt said. “There’s a couple hundred there with a telescope, but the Pleiades are so big that they do not fit into a telescope eyepiece easily.” ...

The Pleiades is a bright star cluster and a popular skywatching target. We take a look at where it is located and the mythology behind the famous asterism.

A worldwide network of radio telescopes measured the distance to the famous star cluster the Pleiades to an accuracy within 1 percent. The result resolved a controversy raised by a satellite's ...

“There’s a couple hundred there with a telescope, but the Pleiades are so big that they do not fit into a telescope eyepiece easily.” Hunt also likes binoculars for viewing conjunctions of planets, an ...

Astronomers have used a worldwide network of radio telescopes to resolve a controversy over the distance to a famous star cluster—a controversy that posed a potential challenge to scientists ...