Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. On November 14, 2024, at 5 a.m., residents ...

The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...

A group of international astronomers have discovered three mysterious, ultra-massive galaxies in the early universe. The ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

The growing trend of astrotourism continues to draw new travellers to the wonders of the night sky in places where light ...

To kick off the month, the Red Planet will be at a very bright magnitude. It rises at midnight on November 1 and will be ...

The sun gets super-active in a new timelapse captured from a Portugal dark sky preserve by astrophotographer Miguel Claro. The new moon glows in the sky above Turkey with the reflected light of ...

Sports venues in Ruthin have installed the first fully dark sky and eco-friendly lights in Wales. The Clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape team have worked with Clwb Rygbi Rhuthun and ...

This long-period comet from the Oort Cloud — a sphere around the solar system home to millions of comets — astronomers think it loops around the sun once ... in a dark sky, with last week ...

This is a great time for planet-watching, with Venus low in the southwestern sky in evening twilight. Saturn appears next, about a third of the way up the southern sky as soon as it gets dark.