Light pollution has long troubled astronomers, who generally shy away from deep sky observing under full Moon skies. The ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Looking up into the dark Wyoming night sky, all the stars in the Milky Way were shining so brightly it looked like white paint had been splashed across the sky from horizon to horizon. I blinked ...

A charming Arizona town in the west was designated as the world's first International Dark Sky City, meaning it offers beautiful views of the Milky Way.

A local photographer captured images of the Northern Lights over Ludham and Winterton in Norfolk this weekend.

The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...

Experience a unique underwater spectacle where the "Milky Way" comes to life at a stunning beach destination in Mexico.

Argentina's Quebrada de Humahuaca offers world-class stargazing. The UNESCO World Heritage site, located in the Jujuy ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the Milky Way was the entire universe. As astronomers scanned the night sky with larger telescopes, they were intrigued by fuzzy patches of light ...

Milky way over the desert of Death Valley Time lapse shot of starry night sky with milky way moving over the arid desert landscape of Death Valley in southern California - USA. Arrowweed (Pluchea ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a ... plates recorded images of the night sky using a light-sensitive emulsion ...