Orion, Pleiades, and Hyades may be stages of one star system’s life, revealing how star clusters form and change.

For example, from St. Louis, Missouri (in Central Daylight Time, UTC –5), Maia will disappear at 4:06 a.m. CDT and reappear ...

The crescent Moon appears to plow through the Pleiades cluster this morning with occultations visible across North and ...

The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the ...

On Saturday, March 25, the crescent moon will pass the bright open star cluster known as the Pleiades or "the Seven Sisters".

The moon will pass in front of the Pleiades star cluster during an occultation on Jan. 9, 2025. Here's how to see it ... [maps] — The brightest planets in January's night sky: How to see them ...

As the brightest star cluster, the Pleiades is a showpiece in both binoculars and small telescopes. This sky map shows how to spot the Pleiades along with the full moon on Sunday morning. You may like ...

Hipparcos surveyed almost 120,000 stars two decades ago to generate a three-dimensional map of the skies. Published in 1997, that map is still the most complete stellar survey of its kind.

If, like me, you are a bit of a cartophile, then From Streets to the Stars: 500 years of maps is for you. It is a small but perfect exhibition at the Weston Room of the Maughan Library, King’s ...

As the bright planets Venus and Jupiter go their own separate ways after their spectacular tryst in mid-March, Venus continues to grow ever-brighter as the northern spring evenings warm up. The ...

This story was updated at 6:09 p.m. ET. An odd thing is going to happen on Sunday (Nov. 21): Just before sunrise, the full moon will appear on the western horizon just beneath the Pleiades, the ...