The ideal time to watch this celestial alignment is just after sunset and will be more difficult to see while the sun is ...

This blast is likely to cause an eruption of light which is capable ... and Vega—and tracking a straight line from one to the ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

You can find the planet standing in a line with the two brightest ... if you’re in an area free from light pollution, try scanning the sky without optical aid to see if you can find it.

Swap the city for somewhere that looks dark on a light-pollution map with a western horizon free from the glare of a city. Another way is to locate a Dark Sky Place near you. Although its ...

“Mercury is usually visible with the naked eye if you’re somewhere with low light pollution ... looking at the sky, it will look like there is more or less a straight line of planets, which ...

The photogenic comet is currently speeding away from Earth but is still visible in the Northern Hemisphere night sky for another week or so. It's grown fairly dim, but can still be seen easily ...

Light pollution—the needless shining of bright lights into the night sky—has robbed whole generations of the chance to see nature on its largest scale. It is estimated that as many as eighty ...