Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from ...

Aotearoa New Zealand officially celebrates Matariki for the fourth time, marked by the reappearance in the night sky of the ...

For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars ...

The brightest star in the night sky is the Sirius star. According to NASA, it is over 20 times brighter than our sun and twice as massive, though it might not appear that way to the naked eye.

According to Sky At Night magazine, our sun is the best example of a star's appearance up close. The sun looks like a large, bright yellow disk in plenty of images captured from the moon or within ...

The human eye can detect around 5,000 stars in the night sky. But the light emitted by skyscrapers, street lamps, and houses obscures all but a handful of the brightest stars.

You can’t miss Venus, more brilliant than anything in the night sky (bar the Moon). The Evening Star reaches its maximum brilliance on 19 February.

The seven bright stars in Ursa Major are the most recognisable star pattern in the sky, along with Orion. In Britain, they traditionally form the Plough; though – with this agricultural ...

Dragging the trash barrel to the curb, I look up at the night sky, and my current self is instantly tethered to all my past selves and all their potentials. I want my son to build those cosmic ...

Stars Are Vanishing From the Night Sky. Here's Why A phenomenon called "skyglow" is stealing our celestial view, and the impact is far more dramatic when observed by the unaided human eye.

NASA launches Psyche mission to metal-rich asteroid 08:53. One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of ...