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Nov. 17: The Leonid Meteor Shower should be best from 1 a.m. to dawn. Under dark sky conditions, the Leonids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 15 meteors per hour. Nov. 5: Full hunter supermoon — ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...

In the eastern morning sky, Venus is being swallowed by the rising sun’s glare. Taking Venus’s place this month is Arcturus, ...

The new moon will see dark skies for the peak of the Orionid meteor shower, while three days will pass in front of the red star Antares for observers in South America.

A breathtaking cinematic view of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies connected by a bright trajectory line, symbolizing the 2.5-million–light-year journey between them. A small spacecraft departs ...

Astronomers have found an enormous halo of stars bound to the Andromeda galaxy and extending far beyond the swirling disk seen in images of the famous galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. The ...