Tiny and elusive, New Zealand’s long-tailed bat is the country’s only native land mammal, and it’s critically endangered.

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this ...

In a Swiss pine forest, the treetops are being sprayed with mist in a bid to discover the effect that drier or wetter air has ...

Flights have been cancelled and more delays are imminent as afreak weather system – equivalent to a category 1 cyclone – smashes the state.

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

When the sun sets and the lights go out, the sky comes alive in ways that feel almost magical. From desert horizons to ...

Silhouette: the magic of nonstop is a night sky full of stars and a spectacular sunrise on some of the best mountain bike trails in the country; trails that are only available during this event and ...

The new moon occurs on June 25. A day later, Mercury reaches its highest point in the evening sky, and on June 27, the young moon will make a close pass to the planet.

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

Regulus is a bright blue star in the constellation Leo, which is often called the 'lion's heart'. It regularly appears close ...

TUI offers a seven-night holiday to Boa Vista, Cape Verde, staying at the 5T RIU Karamboa on an all-inclusive basis from £934 ...