Vikas Chander from New Delhi, India The 10.4-meter Gran Telescopio Canarias lies beneath the stars and Venus atop Roque de ...

They also learned how to find the Little Dipper from the two stars at the front of the Big Dipper's ladle. "Despite the clouds, participants really got into it. A keen spirit of exploration and ...

Fireflies need darkness to communicate. Males perform an airborne dance while flashing their abdominal lanterns in a pattern ...

As I write this, snow flurries swirl, and rain has fallen off and on as the gray, leaden clouds rule the sky. Stars will have to shine on without me watching, for now. This of course is the ...

The scene at Pic du Midi is one out of a sci-fi movie: a fortified concrete-and-stone complex, packed full of metal domes, sprawls across the top of a precipitous peak above the clouds.

Look North as the stars appear in June and July to have a chance of seeing rare noctilucent (or 'night-shining') clouds with the ... as the stars begin to shine in late twilight.