Imagine looking up into the nighttime sky and seeing a hunter, a bull, a bear, and a queen. With a little imagination, The ...

The brightest planets in the night sky will shine as the 'planet parade' continues throughout February, plus be on the ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast ...

Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others seem to burst once and go silent. You can produce this sort of sudden surge of ...

emanating from somewhere in the northern constellation Ursa Minor. Leung, a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient at the University of California, Berkeley, hopes eventually to understand the ...

I can’t find Ursa Minor let alone Ursa Major. The Littler Dipper is about all I can identify. But, while searching the night sky, I am in awe of its beauty, vastness and the insignificance of ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...