On a dark and clear night, the sky can seem filled with stars, some shining brighter than others. But a few of those bright ...

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Observing the sky in March presents a trade-off: it coincides with the beginning of Ramadan this year, and as the month ...

A Journey Taken by Solar System Millions of Years Ago Possibly Changed Earth's Climate Forever, Claim Researchers The solar ...

Giant clouds of dust and gas were spotted in Norfolk skies ahead of seven planets being visible at the same time.

Giant clouds of dust and gas were spotted in Norfolk skies ahead of seven planets being visible at the same time.

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna, has revealed that the Solar System passed through the ...

Pity the poor constellation Monoceros. The faint Unicorn is outshone by famous constellations like Gemini, the Twins, to the north and Orion, the mythic giant, to the west.

This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury will shine bright enough for the naked eye to see, and you can catch glimpses of Uranus and Neptune with binoculars or a telescope.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best must-see attractions in the Pottsville sky, and it is even more impressive once you get ...