The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

If there is no direct sunlight striking the cloud, it may reflect the color of the sky and appear bluish. Some of the most picturesque clouds occur close to sunrise and sunset when they can appear ...

For a few days around this date, we can try spotting Venus in bright twilight both immediately before sunrise and right after sunset. It rapidly zooms into the morning sky, reaching an angular ...

A red sky in the morning signals that high pressure has already moved east, giving way to low pressure with wet and windy weather – necessitating that shepherd’s warning. The colours of sunrise and ...

From poets and philosophers to scientists and spiritual leaders, everyone has been captivated by the beauty and symbolism of ...

It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation ...

This is the weekend we switch the clocks. We "spring forward" at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9, to Eastern Daylight Time.

Fajr is one of Islam's five obligatory daily prayers. During Ramadan, Muslims wake up before Fajr to eat before starting ...

t=3s Both immense in size and ephemeral in time, part of the appeal of sunrise or sunset is its very transience – the work of artists is to trace its vanishing resplendence as it races across a ...