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The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...
Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...
July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...
The next full Moon is rising tonight. July 2025's Buck Moon will appear unusually large and low in the sky, creating a ...
A second "new star" has unexpectedly appeared in the night sky, less than two weeks after a near-identical point of light first burst into view without warning. These never-before-seen "stars" are ...
While thinking of space as one big rubbish tip isn’t nice, one perk of all this cosmic filth is meteor showers, which light ...
The young moon leaves the sky dark for skywatchers to see Mercury next to our lunar companion on June 27.
Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.
No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...