T his time last year, astrophiles were gearing up for a "once-in-a-lifetime" spectacle—only it never happened. The celestial ...

The Sirius star is also called the Dog star ... The Canis Majoris, pictured here, appears close to Orion's Belt in the night sky. No. The North Star, called Polaris, is actually much dimmer ...

Sirius “The fiery one,” the brightest star in the sky Combining the northern and southern hemispheres, Sirius takes the top spot on the podium. Impossible to miss on a clear winter evening ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and use just your eyes to make a giant figure ...

You know, after decades of pointing optics toward the sky, I consider myself a knowledgeable observer. But while researching the Pleiades a few months back, I was surprised to learn that it wasn't the ...

Sirius, the most brilliant star in the night sky, has a magnitude of –1.46. Even though a handful of stars possess negative magnitudes, many amateur observers loosely but conveniently consider ...