People who like to gawp at celestial events (as we all should) are in for a real treat at the moment. As well as the best meteor shower of the year – courtesy of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle – there is the ...

The Seven Sisters Eclipse occurs when the moon in its waning crescent phase moves across the Pleiades and blocks the stars ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

The moon will dance with the Seven Sisters during the early morning on Wednesday, Aug. 9, during a close approach to this fascinating open star cluster.

Seven Sisters is an heirloom multiflora, rambling rose, with all the characteristics. Multifloras are large, rambling roses with a growth habit that is arching and spreading.

So 100,000 years ago, most people really would have seen seven stars in the cluster. We believe this movement of the stars can help to explain two puzzles: the similarity of Greek and Aboriginal ...