Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.

Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, and Venus.

Directly above Grus is Piscis Austrinus, the southern fish, which has the only first- magnitude star Fomalhaut in this whole collection of watery constellations.

Keep your eyes on the skies from Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, and you might see an unusual cosmic convergence: two ...

The Perseid Meteor Shower won't peak until the second week of August, but there are a couple meteor showers this week you ...

A new star, V462 Lup, was discovered in the Lupus constellation, thanks to a sudden explosion in the Milky Way. The new star is most visible in southern hemisphere.

June kicks off as the sixth month of the calendar year, with the summer solstice occurring mid-month, marking the start of a new season, along with a few stellar sky-gazing events, such as a rare ...

As its name suggests, the Southern Delta Aquariids will be most visible to stargazers situated in the Southern Hemisphere, ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

The African savannas provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stargaze in the clearest of the skies and with the least ...

A new star, V462 Lup, was discovered in the Lupus constellation, thanks to a sudden explosion in the Milky Way. The new star is most visible in southern hemisphere.