I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

January new moon brings darker skies and prime stargazing conditions across hemispheres. A new moon takes place when the Sun ...

A new North East Dark Skies Festival is set to run at the Northumberland International Dark Sky Park, aiming to draw UK-wide visitors for ...

NASA outlines a full 2026 astronomy calendar featuring eclipses, planetary alignments, meteor showers, supermoons, and seasonal milestones visible from different parts of Earth.

Radio telescopes are instruments that capture faint radio signals from space and convert them into images of celestial bodies ...

A bloody red moon will fill the skies across the U.S., Australia and Asia next month. The moon’s ruddy hue is the result of a ...

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

Astro Dog, a Scarborough-based astronomy business, is hosting popular stargazing events at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. Braving the ...

STARGAZERS may soon have a chance to spot the “Great Comet of 2026” – potentially the brightest of the year. Comets are a ...

Discover the March 3, 2026 Worm Moon total lunar eclipse: a blood-red spectacle in a year of 13 UK full moons, supermoons & ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...