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

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

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 ...

The visibility of the night sky in New Zealand appears to be following a similar trend. Between 2012 and 2021, the area affected by light pollution grew at a rate of 4.2% above the global average.

Sirius is special, not so much that it is at the top of the list of the 21 brightest stars in the sky, but it also out-dazzles its nearest competitor, Canopus, the second brightest star by 0.8 of ...

The first bright star you come upon will be Polaris, at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper. The constellations in the northern sky at midnight on Feb 15, 2025. (Stellarium) ...

Thousands of stars are visible, and the Milky Way is like a river of light across the sky. At the very darkest sites on Earth, far removed from humanity’s wasted sky-directed light, that ...

South Carolinians may be able to see a once-in-a-lifetime event in the night sky: a thermonuclear explosion — or nova — on a white dwarf star located 3,000 light-years away from Earth.

Known as the “dog star” for its place amid the constellation Canis Major, Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. The vivid star is one of the nearest to Earth, at just 8.6 light-years ...

Artists have been fascinated by the night sky and its dazzling cosmos for centuries. From Van Gogh’s trippy The Starry Night (1889) to Théodore Géricault’s eerie, green-tinged After the ...