When looking up at the sky at night, it’s easy to get the impression that the stars go on forever in fairly uniform fashion. We know, of course, that this isn’t the case. Stars coalesce into galaxies, ...

June’s night skies provide excellent opportunities to discover a slice of the evening sky that is largely unsung, unheralded and usually ignored. Daniel Zantzinger / Skywatcher’s Guide When, for ...

Stare into the night sky and you can’t help being amazed by the sheer scale of the universe. Look for Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. That’s 8.6 light years away. Polaris, the North Star, sits ...

In the northern night sky, you can sometimes find a foreleg-shaped cluster of stars known as the Boötes (Greek word for "herdsman") constellation. In its vicinity, there is an enormous dark space that ...

The Boötes Void is one of the largest known empty regions in the observable universe, stretching roughly 330 million light years across. In a space that size, astronomers would normally expect to find ...

Most of us would consider Bootes the Bear Guard a spring constellation. That's when it first appears in the eastern sky, following the tail of Ursa Major the Great Bear as the snow drifts recede. Come ...

Dive into the mysteries of the Boötes Void, a vast region of space that leaves astronomers perplexed. Spanning 330 million light-years and containing only a few galaxies, it challenges our ...

STARE into the night sky and you can’t help being amazed by the sheer scale of the universe. Look for Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. That’s 8.6 light years away. Polaris, the North Star, sits ...