In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" -scientifically known as novae -are currently visible to the naked ...

Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

The German astronomer Johann Bayer added 11 constellations in his 1603 star atlas, Uranometria, based on Southern Hemisphere observations of explorers Pieter Dirksz Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.

The Atacama Desert's near-perfect visibility provides crystal-clear views of the most famous constellations of the Southern Hemisphere sky, including the Tarantula Nebula, the Fornax Cluster of ...

This is because the meteors seem to emerge, or radiate, from the constellation Aquarius, which is higher up in the sky in the Southern Hemisphere than it is in the Northern Hemisphere.

As the stars and constellations of the summer slip toward the west, the southern autumn Colorado sky now becomes engulfed in a vast expanse of blackness that is almost completely devoid of bright s… ...