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

Would people travel to see the Milky Way like they do for the Great Barrier Reef? This tiny town thinks dark sky tourism is ...

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

The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia ... All the stars we see in the night sky are in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our galaxy is called ...

There’s a terminator in our midst. Squinting through a telescope, I see it. The fuzzy line (in non-astro speak) where the ...

Experience the magic of the night sky in stunning deserts and high-altitude observatories ... Uluru's sacred lands provide breathtaking views of the Milky Way, with Indigenous Australians using stars ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Orion dominates the February night ... sky objects and winter constellations. Use this opportunity to photograph the Beehive Cluster, the Pleiades, or the faint glow of the winter Milky Way.

Two hours earlier I’d woken in my “star bed” with the cold night air clawing at my exposed face as a snow dome of diamonds blazed across the night sky. It was 4C and the edge of my pillow ...

One of the largest galaxies ever found, the behemoth is about 1.44 billion light-years away and reckoned to be 32 times the size of our Milky Way galaxy ... in the northern sky by radio telescopes ...