Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

So what was the first recorded UFO sighting, and did it predate the mid-20th century, when reports of UFOs became more ...

From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors ...

Fireworks make many different shapes in the sky, and they all have different names. Many of them get their names after flowers. A peony, the most common type, is a simple spherical arrangement of ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation ... "The biggest surprise was seeing the distinct spiral shape in the Hubble Space Telescope images. At first I was worried I had ...

Daniel was mesmerised by the movements of the starlings as they formed colossal organic shapes in the sky. Each day, as they returned from foraging, they would gather in large numbers and perform ...

The other stars in the constellation of Cygnus are extensions of this cross shape. 2. Throughout summer the Northern Cross will rise higher and higher in the south-eastern sky until September when ...

Snowflakes are like letters from the sky, each crystal a note describing ... how factors such as temperature can influence their shape. Some researchers have already observed how a warming world ...