But this is a performance; the stars above an ingenious projection. For the first time a public audience has experienced the ...

During July, magnitude 5.8 Uranus can be spotted as a blue-green speck in binoculars and as a small 3.5 arc-seconds-wide disk ...

We actually found Sky Map's old-school appearance a little endearing, and it located just as many stars as more premium apps like Night Sky in our testing.

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

The phenomenon of precession—in which Earth slowly wobbles on its axis by around one degree every 72 years—means that the position of the ‘fixed’ stars slowly shifts in the sky.

The "Starlink satellite train" has become a captivating sight for skywatchers, offering a glimpse of the future of global internet coverage. This dazzling spectacle occurs shortly after SpaceX ...

In 134 B.C., Hipparchus saw something surprising in the night sky: In a patch of previously empty space, a new star had winked into existence.

A prehistoric map of the night sky has been discovered on the walls of the famous painted caves at Lascaux in central France. It is a map of the prehistoric cosmos According to Dr Rappenglueck, these ...

Star counts by public awareness campaign Globe at Night revealed that, between 2011 and 2022, the world’s night sky more than doubled in artificial brightness. Yet local interventions can create ...

Star Walk 2, $3 for iOS and free for Android with in-app purchases, uses your phone's sensors and GPS to show you a map of the night sky in real time, pinpointing the location of stars, planets ...

Researchers at Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics discovered a celestial map believed to be from between 1800 to 400 BC. Scientists say there's one star on it that doesn't match our sky.

The phenomenon of precession — in which Earth slowly wobbles on its axis by around one degree every 72 years — means that the position of the ‘fixed’ stars slowly shifts in the sky.