Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

The Buck Moon rises on July 10. The full moon of July, also called the Buck Moon, will rise on July 10.

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

Fresh air, night sky, stars on screen: Cinema’s out-there date nights. By Sharon Bradley, ... Melbourne’s immersive Museum of Desire is in Collingwood until June 30.

Last summer, astronomer Brad Tucker took a bunch of US university students outside to look at the night sky. As they gazed up, Dr Tucker was asked to point out the Milky Way — that broad swathe ...

Astronomers have been waiting for the Vera C Rubin Observatory to open for 30 years. So what is it, and how will it change astronomy?

For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night and seen the stars and our celestial home, the Milky Way galaxy. Cultures all around the world have stories ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more impressive than ever. For 100 years, we have marvelled at planetariums.