Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors, from Mars through to distant Neptune? Then you will need a suitable telescope ... Mars, Mercury, and Saturn line up in the night sky.

The best telescopes allow you to observe the night ... April brings the Lyrid meteor shower as well as Mercury shining its brightest this month at its greatest elongation. We asked award-winning ...

Mercury should also be visible at a magnitude of –0.4, easy to see without binoculars or a telescope, the Almanac wrote. A celestial object’s stellar magnitude describes how bright that object ...