Google Sky Map lets you use your Droid Incredible to locate and identify constellations, stars and planets, and it displays these items on your phone's screen. It can use your phone's GPS to ...

Behold the limitless, crowded cosmos. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Survey has put out its latest data release, increasing the size of the largest 2D sky map. The ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can be very ...

For a long time, astronomy was limited to the light we could see. Telescopes were huge improvements over the human eye, capable of gathering much greater amounts of light due to their large apertures.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Data on just 2% of the night sky has revealed hundreds of ...

During the early days of smartphones, one of the coolest apps you could show off was an augmented reality-like stargazing app. At the time, Google made a free version called Sky Map. The app is ...

That's from one team's examination of just one-quarter of the northern sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Millions of new ...

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Sky Map uses your phone's ...

In a remote section of desert in southern Mexico, on the slopes of the dormant Sierra Negra volcano, lies a collection of 300 steel tanks, each the size of a small house. Together, they take up an ...

Let it never be said that NASA doesn’t ask the big questions. Much of the press about space launches here in 2019 may come from private companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, but a forthcoming NASA ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during December 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.