A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from ...

and indeed that the sun looks orange, and if we close our eyes after gazing a moment at him when high up in the sky, we see a blue image. When the sun is low, his colour changes from orange to red ...

Mars shining like a red star in the night sky, alongside the blue-tinged star Regulus. These two celestial bodies, though ...

We’re all familiar with the sun’s daily motion in the sky. It rises in the east, gets higher in the sky until circa noon, then begins its hours-long descent to set on the western horizon.

Sunny summer days may not be quite as bright this year as smoke from wildfires burning across Canada occasionally spreads ...

During midday, when the sun is high overhead, sunlight passes through a shorter path in the atmosphere, leading to minimal scattering and a deeper blue sky. Conversely, during sunrise and sunset ...

You might think that explaining why the sky is blue would be kind of simple. But even a brief explanation of it requires a lot of science. The colors of everything you see are produced in ...

The blue light bounces around and fills the sky from every direction, while the other colours pass through more directly. When the sun is high overhead, sunlight travels a shorter distance through ...

and the outer edge is blue with light refracting at an angle of 22.37 degrees. You will usually see a Sun dog when the Sun is lower in the sky, so typically in the morning or evening. Just like ...

The fluctuating layer of smoke in our atmosphere meant that the expected blue skies in the evening and morning have taken on ...