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

Stonehenge, the infamous stone circle on Salisbury Plain, U.K., dates to around 2500 B.C.E. The monument is aligned so that if you are standing at the center of the ring on the summer soltice ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of modern astronomical thought ...

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

NASA's PUNCH mission has unveiled its first images of colossal solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

Emphasising that even school students would question the rationale behind the government spending taxpayers’ money on such ...

Cassiopeia the Queen swings in a wide circle around the North Celestial Pole, visible much of (if not all of) the night for most northern observers. This evening around 11:30 P.M. local daylight time, ...

For example, the moon circles Earth, which in turn orbits the sun along with the rest of the solar system, which is itself spiraling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.

The full moon is the worst time to examine it with a telescope as the moon appears one-dimensional – a circle with smaller circles on it. We do not just call it the full moon. Each month of the ...

In the sweltering heat of South Florida, just 30 miles southwest of Miami, stands a monument to unrequited love that would make even the most jaded romantic reach for a tissue. Coral Castle isn’t your ...

This year's buck moon will reach its peak illumination at 4:37 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, July 10, 2025. While ...