I've been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited the Southern Hemisphere for the first time ...

Perseid meteor shower will be most visible in the Northern Hemisphere from July 17 to August 24, with peak activity on August 12-13. Although the meteor shower can be seen all over the night sky, ...

A new map of the Milky Way reveals the star-forming regions seen from the southern hemisphere The survey is the first of its kind to be captured in submillimetre wavelengths ...

For the first time, astronomers have mapped the surface of a pulsar in detail. And the result challenges our textbook picture of a pulsar’s appearance.

In the Southern Hemisphere, an object near the celestial equator looks upside down and reversed compared to a northern perspective.

Although it refers almost exclusively in detail to the more remarkable objects of the southern hemisphere, the author has managed to interweave a good deal of interesting information which is ...

Understanding the Map to the Stars In the image above, LIGO gives us a glimpse at the new field of gravitational wave astronomy with the release of a map of the Southern Hemisphere skies.

The Perseids are primarily a Northern Hemisphere sky show, but sky-watchers in the Southern Hemisphere will still have the chance to observe some of the shower.

Observations from NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey produced this high-energy neutron detector map of martian neutrons in the southern hemisphere. The blue region around the south pole indicates a high ...

This impressive display, which is visible in the northern and parts of the southern hemisphere, will peak on the evening of 12 August, running into the early hours of 13 August.

The Perseids are the most popular show of shooting stars, as they peak on warm August nights as seen from the northern hemisphere. This meteor shower is active through Aug. 24.

Count the stars in the Southern Cross during the winter solstice this weekend and join world record attempt to map light pollution across Australia.