Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

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 ...

The Pleiades is one of the most beautiful sights in the night sky. This open cluster of seven bright stars (also known as the “Seven Sisters”) is close to the ecliptic — the sun’s path ...

With noctourism, or astro-tourism, projected as a major trend this year by several travel reports, more travellers are ...

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 ...

While photo-guide David Yau was showing tourists the beautiful night sky, he was able to capture this incredible (and fast!) display of swirling lights. As the sun spits out solar radiation ...

NASA estimates that there are nearly 6,000 tons of space junk in low Earth orbit, moving around our planet at speeds up to 18 ...