I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

This sunlight reflected from Earth’s clouds and ice back onto the ... with the hunter’s iconic belt stars, Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka, an obvious highlight of the southeastern night sky ...

Alnitak is composed of three gravitationally ... By comparison, Jupiter is 601 million miles (967million kilometers) from Earth at its greatest distance. A runaway star that was kicked out of ...

At new phase, you can't see the moon from Earth because the illuminated side ... They are named (from left to right) Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Below the Belt and to the right is Rigel ...

This sunlight reflected from Earth’s clouds and ice back onto the lunar surface is often picked up by wide-angle lenses. Read: The best lenses for astrophotography. Orion dominates the February night ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs. That one was estimated to be about 6.2 ...

"Alien: Earth" is bringing the xenomorphs somewhere they've never been before: Television. The FX TV series developed by Noah Hawley, who created fan-favorite shows including "Legion" and "Fargo ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in less than eight years. And as they learn more about ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in less than eight years. And as they learn more about ...

This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade. The 2024 YR4 asteroid set off automated asteroid warning systems after ...