This evening’s viewing challenge is the planet Mercury. It is less than half a fist above the west-northwestern horizon at ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Spiritual Neptune, on the other hand, is fluid and esoteric. As the planet of illusions and the subconscious, Neptune’s sense ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Saturn entered Aries in May of 2025 — and has been hanging out in the early degrees of the sign of the ram ever since. Saturn ...

Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System.

NASA’s New Horizons probe, which hurtled past Pluto in 2015, demonstrates that it can sail through interstellar space using ...

Lake Effect astronomy contributor Jean Creighton shares some myths behind some of our solar system’s most famous moons and ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System. This one appears to be a comet, a ball of dust, ...

July is a special month, as it is part of the summer, the Independence Day of the United States (4) is celebrated, and also the meeting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, considere ...