THE Taurid meteor shower is set to peak tonight, casting “slow and bright” shooting stars across the sky. These fireballs, ...

Its most famous signpost are the three stars of Orions Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. During October and November, Orion will be in the southeastern sky around midnight, precisely when the ...

Thankfully this summer wasn’t unusually hot here in the Southern California deserts, but I’m still glad for cooling temperatures. One can only take so ...

The Pixel 9 Pro XL is made for astrophotography, mainly because of how I'm able to use it to capture nebulas and star ...

Despite their far-off origin, the Orionids appear to come from a patch of sky close to Betelgeuse, a red giant star in the constellation Orion. The constellation is best known for Orion's Belt ...

The iPhone 16 Pro Max is an excellent shooter for low light, so I tried astrophotography to capture some of my favorite deep ...

To make sure you are looking in the right direction, simply keep an eye out for the three distinctive stars which make up Orion's belt. However, the meteors won't always emerge from within Orion ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

Looking up and around during the day, it's easy to understand why the ancients believed that we live under a great dome of sky.

Orient Star is definitely staying true to its name. The latest version of the M42 Diver pays tribute to one of the brightest ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the ...