I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

May 2025 offers a chance to observe four bright planets: Venus and Saturn: These two planets start the month close together in the eastern sky before sunrise. As the month progresses, Saturn gradually ...

They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...

NASA has revealed its top skywatching tips for May, and they include a meteor shower, lots of planets, and possibly a nova.

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked eye sometime in the coming months. When it happens, the nova will ...

The annual meteor shower – which is formed from debris from Halley’s comet – will light up the sky above Australia this week, ...

Stargazers can see clusters of shooting stars and planets lighting up the California night sky in May. Stunning streams of comet dust will dash across the sky when the Eta Aquarid meteor shower ...

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

Experts have revealed their top tips for catching a glimpse of the breathtaking celestial event coming for the UK ...

The Red Planet will meet a beautiful star cluster called the Beehive on Friday (May 2). Also known as M44, the cluster will ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

Mars will skirt the edge of M44, also known as the Beehive Cluster. Mars will pass within a mere 37 arcminutes of this star cluster. Look to the South at 9:00pm. A simple pair of binoculars will ...