Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

The night sky at around 10pm this month (Nigel Henbest) Considerably dimmer, but still outshining the stars in the western ...

Not only has Webb captured the clearest view of this distant planet's rings in ... Saturn's Rings and Tilt Could Be the Product of an Ancient, Missing Moon Sep. 15, 2022 — Scientists propose a ...

A great example of such an app is Stellarium—a planetarium program allowing you to view the night sky from the comfort ...

This evening, astronomy enthusiasts have an exciting opportunity to witness a beautiful phenomenon in the sky as the moon and ...

In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...