His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine. It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening ...

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. It's hard to be modest when you live in the Milky Way. Our galaxy is far larger, brighter, and more massive than most ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful ... Jim Richardson has been a National Geographic photographer for over three decades, documenting landscapes and cultures around the ...

The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, a Dark Sky Preserve. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics ...

Thousands of these stellar-mass black holes may lurk within our own Milky Way galaxy. Supermassive black holes, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, can have masses equal to ...

Ancient white dwarf stars shine in the Milky Way galaxy. Stars like our sun fuse hydrogen in their cores into helium. White dwarfs are stars that have burned up all of the hydrogen they once used ...

Adventure doesn’t stop after dark in Scotland, from twilight kayaking along the River Tay to pitch-black bungee jumps in the Highlands.

The Milky Way illuminates the night sky beyond ... it on above (if you’re on a desktop computer) or going to the National Geographic channel on the YouTube app (if you’re on mobile).

10 of the best places for stargazing in the UK 10 of the best places for stargazing in the UK Dark sky tourism is on the rise across the U.S. Dark sky tourism is on the rise across the U.S.