Aurora borealis: nature’s ultimate display

Sail Norway’s dramatic fjords high above the Arctic Circle and learn about the night sky on this small-ship cruise

Visiting Lapland may be on many children’s wish lists, but I’ve never seen a more excited bunch of adults than when the northern lights appeared on our trip to Sweden. There is no guarantee, so we wer

Planetary physicist Dr Sheila Kanani on why now is the time to spot shooting stars and a sunlit Saturn

F rom the top of the highest peak ...

I looked out of the window before bed while on holiday in Orkney in mid-August and was delighted to see my first-ever noctilucent cloud display! The reflections in the still waters of the Bay of Firth

The seasoned polar explorer Franklin lost two vessels and 129 men, himself included, in the late 1840s, searching for the route that would take 3,000nm off the sea route to the Orient. Even though glo