When treasure hunters Mario Renner and Henry Westphal turned on their metal detectors in 1999 and started sweeping the ground ...

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 ...

This is part of a series of articles written by members of the Westfield High School Space and Astronomy Club. Their mission is to share their enthusiasm for space and astronomical events with the ...

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

Visible to the unaided eye as a tiny congregation of stars due west of Taurus’ V-shaped head, the Pleiades (M45), also known as the Seven Sisters, is one of the sky’s premier open star clusters. Under ...

If you look just slightly away from Pleiades, you’ll be able to see it better. Why? It’s just science! Credit: Creators.com illustration The moon returns to our evening sky this week. It begins its ...

On the evening of Oct. 9, a waning gibbous moon visits the famous Pleiades Star Cluster  — the Seven Sisters  — in Taurus.

If the skies are clear where you live, tomorrow night you’ll have the opportunity to witness the Moon pass in front of the ...

Spring will be here with the equinox, but before then, we have to set our clocks forward, which gives me another chance to complain about having to follow daylight saving time. This is one time when ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 3 years old. The Pleiades star, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Go outside after dark and look to the east and something ...