Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide. Looking for a telescope for the next night sky event? We recommend the Celestron ...

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

So it can be seen slowly moving across the entire night sky with respect to the background stars—and it’s therefore Earth’s changing position in the solar system that is the biggest factor ...

As of today Mars will reverse its apparent west-to-east movement in the night sky and begin moving from east-to-west against the background stars. This is called “retrograde motion” and it ...

Here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in February 2025: If you've been outside just after sunset in the ...

The brightest planets in the night sky will shine as the 'planet parade' continues throughout February, plus be on the lookout for the Moon to join the line-up, and for Saturn to 'tag' Mercury in ...

A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights ... you'd see some of the red aurora in the background and, all of a sudden, you'd see this structured ...