Don't miss the moon, Jupiter and the stars of the constellation Orion rise along the southern horizon on Oct. 12.

On Sunday, Oct. 12, the waning gibbous moon will rise beside the iconic Orion constellation in the eastern night sky. Here’s ...

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...

The Orion Nebula, about 1,500 light-years away, is a star nursery where enough gas and dust exist to form roughly 200,000 ...

We're into October, which means that the Orionid meteor shower—one of the few astronomical displays that can be reliably ...

• On the evening of Oct. 9, the moon will pass through the Pleiades star cluster. Use binoculars to see some of its stars around the moon, and use a telescope to see stars pop out along the dark edge ...

Anthony Wood joined Space.com in April 2025 after contributing articles to outlets including IGN, New Atlas and Gizmodo. He ...

Tallahassee Astronomical Society’s free planetarium show, “October Skies over Tallahassee,” is at the Fogg Planetarium Oct. 4.