You can tell spring has officially begun in the Northern Hemisphere just by looking at the stars. Here's how to easily spot the Spring Triangle without a telescope.

Weather permitting, the International Space Station will be making some visible evening passes through Santa Barbara’s skies to start off Spring. Its orbit may change, and I've only listed the best ...

At the start of March, Mercury and Venus lay in the west after sunset. Now both have passed between us and the Sun into the ...

You can tell spring has officially begun in the Northern Hemisphere just by looking at the stars. Here's how to easily spot ...

But I believe there also are other stars gracing the winter sky that are just as beautiful--for instance Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, and the three stars in Orion’s Belt. While feeling ...

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 ...

Winter’s signature constellation, Orion the hunter, is cresting in the south as the night begins, its three belt stars angling down and left toward Sirius, the night’s brightest star.

You can draw an imaginary arrow down and to the left from Orion’s three belt stars to locate Sirius in Canis major. (Illustration by the author) Astronomers say that of the thousands of stars visible ...