To witness these spectacular displays, check an astronomical calendar for upcoming meteor showers visible from your location.

The Full Beaver Moon of November 2024 will be the final of four consecutive supermoons this year, appearing slightly larger in the night sky on Friday (Nov. 15).

Matt also managed a great shot of October’s Hunter’s Moon. Constellations Orion, the Hunter, slowly ascends in the south-east portion of the sky during November, gaining height as the weeks pass to ...

Night sky observers always factor in the moon to determine the best time for astronomy viewing, especially for the two meteor ...

Thankfully this summer wasn’t unusually hot here in the Southern California deserts, but I’m still glad for cooling temperatures. One can only take so ...

The Election of 2024 has come and gone, and there are winners, and there are losers. But when it comes to the night sky there ...

Saturn can help orient you. The ringed planet is somewhat low in the southeast to south at nightfall. Now in Aquarius, Saturn ...

Malan is astronomy writer and presentation editor for the Enid News & Eagle. Email him at [email protected]. Have a question about this story? Do you see something we missed? Do you have a story ...

Looking up and around during the day, it's easy to understand why the ancients believed that we live under a great dome of sky.

shining above the hourglass form of Orion, the hunter, and rapidly brightening Mars, bringing up the rear below the Gemini twins. The assembly enters an evening sky marked by relatively dim fall ...

It’s called the Orionids because all the meteors seem to come from a spot in the constellation Orion the Hunter. The meteor activity will peak in the early morning hours of October 21.