[[nid:206943 field_align=full-width]]This story is part of NPR's Skunk Bear series. Once, the sky was full of stories. Ancient cultures filled the heavens with heroes and monsters, and spent nights ...

The best news for stargazers in November is that nights are much longer and you can start your stargazing well before 7 p.m.

Shannon Silverman, an astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode 6, she tells us about some summer constellations.

Early summer is an "in-between" time in the skies. The realm of the galaxies has moved off to the west, but the summer Milky Way has not yet arrived. This is the best time of year to observe globular ...

It’s December, but there are still some summer constellations visible in the evening sky. In July and August, the summer constellations were soaring nearly overhead, but now the last of them are ...

Once, the sky was full of stories. Ancient cultures filled the heavens with heroes and monsters, and spent nights telling epics and memorizing patterns in the stars. These days, the stars are a little ...