We're now just past the midpoint of astronomical winter — that ... westward against the star background. Want to see the stars of Gemini or Mars up close in the night sky? The Celestron NexStar ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Look west right after ... visitor to those “Three Kings.” A “Christmas Star?” It’s Comet Leonard, which appears ...

While it might be tempting to stay home and rug up, winter ... in the sky are "the pointers" in the constellation of ...

then Mars and Jupiter will rule the night amid the menagerie of bright winter stars,” the U.S. space agency said in its February blog, which gives a summary of sky events. Here’s how to see ...

The Winter Constellations are dominating the night sky right now. To the south, Orion is still the most recognizable arrangement of stars, chasing Taurus across the sky, with Gemini, Cancer ...