At the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice the upper half of the Earth is at its furthest lean away from the sun — leading ...

Ever wondered why the moon looks slightly different every night? This is to do with the lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is a series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility. The whole cycle takes ...

We're just a day away from a new lunar phase, which means we're close to seeing the moon half-lit up once again. What is a lunar phase, you ask? Lunar phases make up the lunar cycle, a series of eight ...

On December and January evenings, Orion rises early and dominates the southern sky by mid-evening, making him the easiest ...

Photo of the constellation Cygnus with annotations from IAU and Sky & Telescope. Here is the non-annotated version. You've heard of the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere's night sky, but what ...