The Leonid meteor shower is created as Earth pass through the trail of tiny debris left behind by comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle as ...

Face south about 10 p.m. to find the constellation Leo, the Lion, with giant planet Jupiter nearby. One of the surest signs of spring for stargazers is the constellation Leo high in the ...

The familiar winter stars and constellations are setting in the west before midnight this month. Orion and its brilliant belt of stars dominates the southern sky in the early evening before making ...

Most night sky observers are familiar with the “Pointer” stars of the Big Dipper that form the lead edge of the Dipper’s Bowl and “point” to Polaris, the North Star. Most of these same observers do ...

Without a doubt, the constellations of spring are not nearly as flashy as the star patterns of winter, but there are a few decent ones. Leo the Lion is one of them. There’s no question as to ...

I have to admit that the constellations of spring, by and large, are no match for the wonderful constellations of winter, like Orion and the rest of his gang. The winter shiners show up after ...