As dark sky sanctuaries grow in popularity, scientists are revealing more of the benefits of darkness—from repairing DNA to ...

Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

The growing trend of astrotourism continues to draw new travellers to the wonders of the night sky in places where light ...

Social media users were captivated by the incredible view in the viral clip, with one saying: "My jaw has never dropped so fast." ...

But his greatest passion is the genuine article, the real night sky. Roughly 80 percent of North America has lost its view of the Milky Way, but Maine is home to some of the darkest nights east of the ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy ...

Learn more › Beyond a few bright celestial objects, the rise of light pollution has made it difficult for most people to experience a genuinely starry night sky ... of the Milky Way, these ...

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our solar system, with the name describing the galaxy’s appearance from Earth – a misty band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that ...

This gorgeous eight-hour exposure reveals the colors of stars as they make their way across the night sky, colors that ... look at the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way, showing glowing lights ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful ...