Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 kilometers from Australian plains to mountain caves to escape the summer heat. The stars may help them get there.

“Long-exposure photos make the Milky Way’s bright stars and dark dust clouds even clearer. And while our eyes see it in ...

A new study finds an Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass.

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op.

The Bogong moth migrates 1,000 km, using stars in the Milky Way for navigation, a first for insects. They sense Earth's magnetic field as a backup.

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

In this tutorial I showcase a simple way to process the Milky Way and Night Sky Photography in Adobe Lightroom. In the video I cover my favorite ways to enhance the colors of the Milky Way Galaxy ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope.

Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in our ...

Researchers don’t know what features of the night sky the moths use to find their way. It could be a stripe of light from the Milky Way, a colorful nebula or something else entirely.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is ...