As the night skies of May unfold, there’s a wealth of celestial events to witness, from the waxing Moon to the prominent ...

Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

The BBC's Sky at Night Magazine reports that, should we ever get to stargaze on Mars, we'd see two moons - Phobos and Deimos - instead of just one. We wouldn't see as many satellites either, making it ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe the night sky in more detail — view our solar system and deep space with these tried and tested telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The night sky at around 11pm this month (Nigel Henbest) Mars is gradually fading as the faster-moving Earth pull away from the Red Planet, and it’s now fainter than some of the stars in the ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

Under good night sky viewing conditions the human eye is capable of picking out objects with a magnitude of around +6, which allows us to view over 9,000 stars without the need for telescopes or ...