Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

While you likely won't see 100 to 150 meteors an hour — unless you're one of the few who lives under ideal conditions — if the sky is clear, you'll be in for a good show.

The Whirlpool is a face-on spiral galaxy that shows off both its bright nucleus and winding arms. Shining at magnitude 8.4, it's a bright galaxy and any small scope will capture it as a circular ...

M22 spans about the same size on the sky as the Full Moon and contains at least 70,000 stars. It stands roughly 10,000 light-years away, making it a relatively close globular cluster, and is ...