Google has updated its Sky Map app to now let you see night time sky configurations in both the past and future. Google is cheekily calling this new feature “Time Travel”. The app, which has been ...

With Google Sky Map on your Android phone you can discover and browse the night sky just by pointing your phone to space. Google has made its augmented reality Sky Map App open source, which will now ...

If you live somewhere that’s too bright to enjoy the stars, you’re definitely not alone. Light pollution is rampant, and it can make stargazing nearly impossible. Luckily, there’s an interactive, ...

Web application that can visually display information such as temperature, rain rate, wind speed, ultraviolet ray index on the map "Dark Sky Maps"Has appeared so I tried using it. After opening the ...

Sky map animation showing the concentration of dust in the Milky Way above the skies of Brussels through the day and night. A new set of tools for astronomers and planetary explorers use interactive ...

When you look up at the night sky, do you wonder about what's out there? Most of the stars we can see with the naked eye reside within our own galaxy. And now we know a lot more about them. The ...

The Nebra Sky Disk, a 12-inch copper disk with inlaid celestial representations, is debated as either the oldest known concrete representation of astronomical phenomena (circa 1600 B.C.) or a later ...

Recently, the European Space Agency released the third installment of data from the Gaia satellite, a public catalog that provides the positions and velocities of over a billion stars. This is our ...

Scientists believe ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus mapped the entire night sky. Scientists have discovered the earliest-known map of night sky from a monastery in Egypt in the form of parchment, ...

A space observatory designed to map the entire sky over a period of two years to further our understanding of the early universe has started snapping images. SPHEREx, which launched in early March, ...