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, ...

Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair.

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 second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.

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 ...

Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.