Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...

The month brings a spectacular lineup of celestial sights—including a rare chan Mercury without a telescope and a "micro" new ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

Skies will be clear Wednesday night if you’d like to do a little stargazing. The closest conjunction of the planet Mars and the Pleiades star cluster since 1991 will take place. They will be about 2.6 ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. October 19: The Moon and Venus before dawn By 10 P.M. local daylight time, the Pleiades (M45) is already 30° high in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

Recent research has revealed that three well-known star clusters — the Orion Nebula Cluster, the Pleiades, and the Hyades — are linked in a cosmic family tree. Though these clusters appear distinct ...

Being that it's Halloween this coming Friday, I thought it only appropriate to tell you about my favorite monsters of the ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, Mars or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades ("seven sisters") star cluster, the result of "monster ...

The waxing crescent moon will be close to the densely packed open star cluster also known as "the Seven Sisters" this weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Look up tonight (March 15) to see the Hyades star cluster light up the Taurus constellation in the night sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...