I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

Astraea is also the constellation of Virgo, often depicted as a virgin maiden associated with wheat. Virgo is a mutable sign and is ruled by Mercury. People who are considered Virgos are born ...

This dream-like Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy known as NGC 3156. It is a lenticular galaxy, meaning that it falls somewhere between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy.

Around midnight tonight in the east, a 55%-lit waning gibbous moon will be just a tenth of a degree from Spica, the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo and about 250 light-years distant.

This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5037, in the constellation of Virgo. First documented by William Herschel in 1785, the galaxy lies about 150 million light-years away from Earth. Despite ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

Galaxy NGC 4535 is truly a stunning sight and is located in the constellation of Virgo, around 50 million light-years from Earth. Westerland 2 is a giant cluster of 3,000 stars that resides in a ...

Hubble has captured UGC 8091, a festive bundle of lights. Located about seven million light-years away in the Virgo constellation, it’s also known as GR 8.

From planets and constellations, to eclipses and the Aurora Borealis, here's what to look for in the sky this spring ...