This week Starwatch is like happy hour, a two-for-one deal. Pegasus the Winged Horse and Andromeda the Princess are two constellations literally joined at the tail of the great flying horse. As it is ...

Hubble was in the process of gleaning clues about dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New images released by NASA's ...

This time of year you have the best chance to see the farthest thing away that you can see with the unaided human eye. Away from city lighting, look in the southeastern sky in the early evening and ...

This time of year, you have the best chance to see the farthest thing away that you can see with the unaided human eye in our Rochester night sky. Away from heavy city lighting, look in the ...

Bellerophon ultimately decided to visit Mount Olympus, the home of the gods, which was strictly off-limits to mortals. As ...

An unusual ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered on the outer fringes of the Andromeda Galaxy thanks to the sharp eyes of an amateur astronomer. Follow-up by professional astronomers revealed ...

Andromeda is one of the 88 modern constellations that was likely known and named long before it appeared on Ptolemy’s list in the second century CE. But my experience is that more people associate the ...

One of the classic constellations of autumn is Pegasus, the flying horse soaring above the southeastern horizon in the evening sky. It’s by far the largest celestial horse we see in our night sky. The ...