April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Incidentally, one way that you can tell the difference between a star and a planet in the night sky is that planets do not appear to twinkle, or at least not very much. Unlike a star whose narrow ...

According to NASA, the planetary phenomenon will be clearest about 45 minutes before sunrise, low in the eastern sky and ...

Under good night sky viewing conditions the human eye is capable of picking out objects with a magnitude of around +6, which allows us to view over 9,000 stars without the need for telescopes or ...

This week, the Lyrid meteor shower has taken over the night sky, casting shooting stars and fireballs darting ... defined glow with a slightly grainy texture. And with telescopes 8 inches or ...