Step outside this week around 9 p.m. local time and look about one-third of the way up from the southern horizon, and your eyes will be met by a dazzling celestial solitaire: Sirius, the Dog Star. In ...

Since 1986 I have had an affiliation with the Hayden Planetarium in New York. My "official" title there is "Associate and Guest Lecturer." Indeed, through all of these years I given scores of ...

Watch Sirius and you’ll soon discover that it doesn’t just seem to twinkle wildly; it fires off colorful sparks that often prompt calls to observatories and emergency personnel. Credit: Creators.com ...

To an untrained eye, the night sky appears very much a mystery. The multitude of stars that join our planets in populating an evening sky are fairly anonymous. The brightest star, and the nearest to ...

The so-called "Dog Days" of summer in the Northern Hemisphere officially came to an end this week, when the Sirius, the bright Dog Star, returned the night sky. Everyone talks about "Dog Days" but few ...

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KENNEWICK — The National UFO Reporting Center has received reports from across the nation — all of them describing a bright, colorful, moving object in the Monday night sky. One of them came from ...