A highlight of the northern hemisphere winter evening sky is Sirius, the brightest star in the entire night sky.

Our January night sky offers up some really amazing sights and some include viewing that brightest star in the sky in remote locations.

This week provides skywatchers with their final opportunity to get a good view of Sirius, the night sky’s brightest star, before evening twilight swallows it. This luminary gleams at magnitude ...

Sirius has been the shiniest star in the sky for a long, long time.

Step outside this week at around 9 p.m. local time and look roughly one-third of the way up from the southern horizon to see Sirius is the Dog Star.

Sirius is the king of stellar brightness and is often referred to as the star of winter, although it’s visible every evening from late December into early May.

The ancient Chinese astronomers knew Sirius as “the celestial wolf”, and there are other canine associations in North America where various tribes saw this star as a sheepdog, a wolf or a coyote.

To an untrained eye, the night sky appears very much a mystery. The multitude of stars that join our planets in populating an evening sky are fairly anonymous. The brightest star, and the nearest ...

Venus will shine as the Evening Star Venus becomes the Evening Star when it appears in the western sky after sunset, which occurs during certain parts of its orbit around the sun.

Sirius is special, not so much that it is at the top of the list of the 21 brightest stars in the sky, but it also out-dazzles its nearest competitor, Canopus, the second brightest star by 0.8 of ...

The two brightest nighttime stars visible in the Pottsville sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only month of the year when we can enjoy both of them at the same time in the early evening ...