I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest. Then clouds and rain moved in, making it a little hard to appreciate the longest ...

Summer evening skies are the home of some classic constellations. One of them is Scorpius the Scorpion, the 10th-brightest constellation in the night sky and one of those few constellations that ...

Now that we’ve marked the summer solstice, it’s the shorter nights of the year for the Northern Hemisphere that usher in a variety of celestial delights for sky-watchers who don’t mind staying up ...