If last year whet your eclipse appetite, get excited for the night skies this month. Mid-March will bring a total lunar eclipse—a phenomenon that turns the full moon a haunting orange tone—to the ...

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Mars has now risen to the rank of the fifth brightest object in the pre-midnight evening sky, rivaled only by the moon, Venus, Jupiter and the brightest of all stars, Sirius. When you purchase through ...

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 ...