The author details their personal journey into astrophotography, focusing on wide-field nightscape imaging to capture the Milky Way and its surrounding celestial objects within their terrestrial ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust seeks "femme-aligned" student interns for a paid night sky photography project. Interns will document the Mojave Desert's dark skies from October 2025 to April 2026, ...

A full moon is one of the moon’s eight phases. In order, the names of the lunar phases are new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, and ...

The month brings a spectacular lineup of celestial sights—including a rare chance to see Mercury without a telescope and a "micro" new moon. A super “beaver moon” rises behind Monte Prena in Italy’s ...

Night Sky 11 is an impressive planetarium in your pocket, with an interface that's easy to read and manipulate, even for beginners. Why you can trust Space.com Our expert reviewers spend hours testing ...

Autumn has draped itself across the northern hemisphere, heralding the onset of longer, darker nights that serve as the perfect backdrop for amateur astronomers looking to explore the wonders of the ...

A startling analysis from Globe at Night — a citizen science program run by NSF’s NOIRLab — concludes that stars are disappearing from human sight at an astonishing rate. The study finds that, to ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special events ...