Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair.

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe, which hurtled past Pluto in 2015, demonstrates that it can sail through interstellar space using ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

Venus hangs below the Pleiades in the early-morning sky today. The bright planet is quickly closing in on Taurus' brightest star, Aldebaran, which it will pass closely next week. Step outside 90 ...

To improve the robust performance for the recognition of star map, in this paper, a neural network algorithm for the recognition of star map is proposed. And th ...

Uranus will also be on show, if you fancy a more challenging target. Early risers are in for a celestial treat on July 5, ...

Minnesota Starwatch for July 2025 Earth reaches aphelion, its farthest point from the sun, at 2:54 p.m. on July 3. At that moment we’ll be 94.5 million miles from our parent star.

Today, the blazing planet moves from Aries into Taurus, standing at a point just less than 10° southwest of the Pleiades star cluster.

Look southeast before sunrise to find Venus just under 10° southwest of the Pleiades star cluster (M45). About 4.3° south of the Pleiades is Uranus, a faint but detectable planet with binoculars or a ...

Earlier this month, we spoke of Ursa Major, the Big Bear, so this week we take a look at the Little Bear, Ursa Minor. Astronomy neophytes sometimes mistake the Pleiades star cluster for the Little ...