As the night skies of May unfold, there’s a wealth of celestial events to witness, from the waxing Moon to the prominent ...

A young tradie has died following a horror forklift accident at a warehouse in Western Sydney. A young man has died at a ...

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

The Full or Flower Moon is on May 12. The Moon is Last Quarter, rising at midnight, on May 20. On the 22nd, the waning ...

General Electric Co., through one of its contractors, is planning to fly a drone along the 4.5-mile section of the river — ...

Astronomers measure the apparent brightness of a night sky object by its magnitude. The lower this value is, the brighter an associated object is in the night sky. Under good night sky viewing ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a conjunction) in the predawn sky ... to catch fainter objects or meteors ...

Tonight, let’s turn in the opposite direction to peer deep into the southern sky a few hours after sunset. There, we’ll find an object that is often called spring’s showpiece planetary ...

But the viral nickname may be a bit of a stretch for skywatchers in North America. The objects will be spaced farther apart than a typical smiley might suggest, with the lineup also tilted at an angle ...

However, other point-like objects in the radio sky also twinkle ... “scintillation arcs,” which provide a three-dimensional map, of plasma structures in the galaxy that are impossible to ...

This means the sky will be at its darkest—an ideal window for anyone hoping to photograph deep-sky objects like galaxies or star clusters. In the early morning hours, Venus and Saturn come close ...