The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

In 1917, he said you could see the Milky Way from the Paris observatory during ... astronomers' ability to accurately observe ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

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 spread of "Our Vanishing Night" in the November 2008 National ...

The universe is huge, yet astronomers have looked at a few parts of the night sky over and over again ... neighborhood right around the Milky Way. But with all the universe to choose from ...

If we lived in the core of the Milky Way, we would see up to one million times more stars in the night sky. There, the crowding of stars is so dense that the typical spiral structure of the galaxy ...

The expanding niche of astrotourism gets a boost from DarkSky International, a nonprofit based in Tucson, Ariz., that has ...

In September, the sky gets dark significantly earlier, allowing us to observe the night sky without having to stay up too ...

Artificial light also makes many animals more vulnerable to other threats and less resilient to habitat loss or degradation.

Gazing into the heart of our home galaxy — the Milky Way — is an unrivalled experience for people looking at Australia's night sky. In the ABC's National Science Week poll — results ...

Labor Day weekend offered the perfect opportunity for folks from across the states to see the entire Milky Way galaxy in West ...