Achernar is a bright, binary star system in the constellation Eridanus, and is the ninth-brightest star in Earth's night sky. The two stars, Achernar A (seven times the mass of the sun) and Achernar B ...

The evening sky is free of the moon for several days, making it a good time to look for one of the largest but faintest constellations, Eridanus the River. A good portion of Eridanus is readily ...

Make sure you go out and watch the sun set tonight and if the sky is clear to the west and you’re very lucky, as the sky begins to grow dark, you might see Mercury with a very thin crescent moon quite ...

November is a wonderful month for stargazing this year and we have lots of planet news too. But our first bit of news is the sunrise, sunset times, specifically sunset. You may remember that last week ...