Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, October 17The Summer Triangle is now sinking in the west late ...

The northern lights have a higher than usual chance of appearing for viewers in some northern states, according to the ...

Prospective northern lights viewers should travel north, towards Earth’s magnetic north pole, experts at NOAA say. Travel ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies. Earlier this month, we spoke of Ursa Major, the Big Bear, so this week we ...

The polar vortex is making a return to the forecast, but the counterintuitive weather feature is nothing to fear.

The Earth's magnetic North Pole is currently moving toward Russia in a way that British scientists have not seen before. Scientists have been tracking the magnetic North Pole for centuries, telling ...

The Martian north polar region is a strange and fascinating place, even by the standards of its strange and fascinating planet. There, the dust that coats the surface of Mars mixes with water ice.