The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

Stargazers in the U.S. will find the waxing gibbous moon above the southwestern horizon as the sun sets on July 3, with Spica ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

When the sun sets and the lights go out, the sky comes alive in ways that feel almost magical. From desert horizons to ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

The UDA boss behind the ‘world’s biggest bonfire’ has claimed a bounty of up to £10,000 was on offer to burn it before the ...

The star at the peak is magnitude 2.2 Navi (Gamma [γ] Cas); the star at the valley to its lower right is similarly bright magnitude 2.2 Shedar (Alpha [α] Cas).

People line up to look through a large amateur telescope at the Grand Canyon Star Party. (U.S. National Park Service) The night sky has influenced humanity from its earliest beginnings.

Those with a stake in a local economic-development endeavor called Project Star likely are flying high today due to action by Mount Airy officials to provide incentives for that effort.

A New Star is Born – Briefly The nova, now officially named V462 Lupi, was first detected on 12 June by astronomers from Ohio State University's All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae.

For the last year or so, astronomers and sky lovers have been waiting for the explosion of T Coronae Borealis. The system is a notorious recurring nova, which is expected to go any moment now, but ...

Destination Southern Tasmania’s Alex Heroys said the experience would transform how people connect with local waters. “Departing from Hobart and travelling the River Derwent under the night skies, the ...