The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

It's easy to get lost in a clear night sky full of stars. It can feel like a random mess of lights without a little guidance.

One fan notices that you can spot real constellations in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and the North Star is actually aligned with North in the game. Now I'm not enough of an astro ...

The Vernal Equinox occurs on Saturday, March 22 to begin spring in the northern hemisphere. Days and nights will be equally 12 hours long, and the sun will rise due east and set due west on that day.

Find the three unmistakable stars in Orion's Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka — and begin to identify the bright stars around them. Above the belt is Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

like the three stars in a row that make up Orion’s belt. I know I am. Another wonderful “accidental” alignment of stars is the Winter Triangle. It is a perfect equilateral triangle made up ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure ...

Orion's belt of three stars is visible even from city locations, as is Sirius, the "Dog Star" in Canis Major. Looking northward from Polaris and going towards the zenith, one will see Auriga ...