During July, magnitude 5.8 Uranus can be spotted as a blue-green speck in binoculars and as a small 3.5 arc-seconds-wide disk ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much ...

Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

When the sun sets and the lights go out, the sky comes alive in ways that feel almost magical. From desert horizons to ...

High in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, something extraordinary is happening. Perched on the peak of Cerro Pachón at ...

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

A massive wildfire raced through dry grass, scorching roughly 35,500 acres as of Thursday morning, and forcing the evacuation ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

Tucson’s skies are slightly darker thanks to the completed streetlight conversion project, according to a study by the Tucson-based International Dark-Sky Association. The study, however, was ...