The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

The nights surrounding Aug. 29 are a great time to spot the stars of the famous 'Summer Triangle' asterism, bisected by the glowing band of the Milky Way, with an early-setting crescent moon providing ...

The Summer Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair. The warm nights surrounding July 12 present a golden opportunity to hunt ...

The official first day of summer isn’t until June 20, but already, there’s a sure stellar sign of summer on the rise. When the night sky finally darkens around 10:30, the “Summer Triangle” emerges in ...

July is often filled with heavenly sights — fireworks, lightning from the occasional thunderstorm and the full Buck Moon, which charges across the summer sky toward the end of the month. Skywatchers ...

Shannon Silverman, an astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode 6, she tells us about some summer constellations.

Gaze at the night sky enough, and you'll begin to find all kinds of geometric patterns among the stars. Points are easy; so are lines connecting two stars. Another easy pattern is a triangle, since ...