Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this ...

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

V462 Lupi will soon vanish from the night sky, but before it does, the dark skies around the new moon present a perfect time ...

Shining at magnitude –0.4, ... Comet Tsuchinshan 1 crosses Leo during December, passing numerous popular deep-sky targets. This chart only shows galaxies magnitude 10 or brighter; ...

It doesn't happen often that Mercury ranks as the planetary highlight of the evening sky, but July is an exception. The solar ...

Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in our ...

By the time you get to magnitude 6.0, you get a star that’s 1 / (2.512 x 2.512 x 2.512 x 2.512 x 2.512), or about one one-hundredth, as bright as magnitude 1.0. An obvious issue with this scale ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in the night sky.