Sky Shorts author says Orion a favorite constellation, and shares key details to find and appreciate its beauty.

Orion’s Belt is a familiar sight in the night sky during the colder months, often noticed easily. Three bright stars sit in a straight line, rising in.

The Moon readies for Artemis II, Orion shines bright, and a planetary parade marches across the night skyNASA's Artemis II ...

The Ojibwe constellation Biboonkeonini, or the Winter Maker, overlaps with the Greek constellation Orion the Hunter. The ...

One of the most famous and recognizable asterisms of the night sky is the Belt of Orion, a tight belt of three bright stars (Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka) in the constellation of Orion, which has given ...

A new rotating Celestial Globe at the Griffith Observatory reimagines ancient constellations inspired by the Farnese Atlas, ...

Hello everyone! Your two evening planets are an easy find this week. Just face due west around 7:20 p.m. and measure three-and-a-half fist-widths up and a fist-width to the left ...

Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of ...

Los Feliz— With its grand Spanish-style buildings, wide greenbelts along the sidewalks, and rows of majestic evergreen cedars ...

February 2026 begins with the Full Moon, the Snow Moon, on February 1. The last quarter moon is on February 9. The new moon, an annular eclipse visible only in Antarctica, is on February 17. The ...

Steve will always appear to the south of the aurora, and is not part of it. People often get confused with tall purple rays.

Prominent constellations in the February evening sky are Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga. You’ll ...