Light pollution is increasing globally, and having a negative impact on wildlife and humans. But the solutions are ...

And, if the timing is right, you might even see a hazy belt stretched across the sky—the starry, dusty core of our very own ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Located 12 million light-years away, M82 appears high in the northern spring sky in the direction of the ... produced by the oblique tilt of its starry disk relative to our line of sight.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda ...

In the right place at the right time, cast your eyes to the sky and ... where the Milky Way frames a violet sea of lupines.

Clearly, the Andromeda Nebula was a system of stars quite separate from the Milky Way, and in many ways comparable to it. From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae ...

As the engineer-in-charge at the observatory, Angchuk aspires to create a full 24-hour time-lapse seamlessly depicting the ...

a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Binoculars will help you spot it, if the clouds don’t get in the way. If you don’t find the Large Magellanic Cloud and your sky is relatively dark and ...

The Milky Way, the Big Dipper and Polaris the north ... a cross-shaped monument stands out against the backdrop of a starry sky. Commonly known as Julia's Cross, it was installed in tribute ...