KOIN 6 viewer Jim Preusse caught a unique view of Monday night and Tuesday morning's northern lights from along the Oregon ...

Long believed to be a compact group of a few bright stars, thePleiades have now been identified as just a fragment of a much larger stellar family stretching over a thousand light-years. Astronomers ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evening of January 27 to see ...

Recent research has revealed that three well-known star clusters — the Orion Nebula Cluster, the Pleiades, and the Hyades — are linked in a cosmic family tree. Though these clusters appear distinct ...

The Pleiades star cluster is slowly tearing a cloud of dust into cosmic tatters, and this new image from the Utah Desert Remote Observatory captured the beautiful destruction in action. For roughly ...

Just about everybody knows the Pleiades star cluster, also called the Seven Sisters. They represent the daughters of the ancient Greek gods Atlas and Pleione. After Orion's Belt and the Big Dipper, it ...

M44, also popularly known as the Beehive Cluster and, more historically, Praesepe (the manger), is a young open cluster in the center of Cancer the Crab. This constellation is already crawling high in ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — High above the horizon on crisp autumn nights, a shimmering cluster of blue-hued stars begins to appear. Known as the Pleiades, or the seven sisters, these stars have been ...

The sun wanders the Milky Way alone; our star orbits the galaxy’s distant center without any stellar siblings. But it wasn’t always this way. The solar system was very likely born in a tremendous gas ...

A great celestial symbol for this time of year is the Pleiades star cluster, otherwise known as the "Seven Little Sisters." Barring cloudy skies, the cluster rises high enough to be easily seen by ...