Your 2026 stargazing guide
A red Moon, a blue Moon, a supermoon and more: your guide to the southern sky in 2026.
A red Moon, a blue Moon, a supermoon and more: your guide to the southern sky in 2026.
NASA just shut down a planetary defence mission that tracks asteroids. So, what happens now?
If astronomers ever needed something to gloat about with scientific colleagues in other fields, their ability to look directly backwards in time is an obvious candidate.
Total, partial, and penumbral – the different types of lunar eclipses can be confusing. Find out what each means, and how the phenomenon occurs in the first place.
Thanks to a huge astronomical survey of the entire sky, we have now found what may be the most hellish place in the universe.
Spots are probably best known as the bane of a teenage face, but you might be surprised to know that a propensity for spots is also a characteristic of other worlds.
Comet Encke has the shortest orbital period of any known comet within our solar system.
Over millennia, humans have observed and been inspired by beautiful displays of light bands dancing across dark night skies.
A bright green comet will be visible from Australia this week for the first time in 50,000 years.
The first images of a nebula from the James Webb Telescope gave astronomers remarkable insights into the death of the star that created these beautiful haloes of gas and dust.