Across the world from Aenos, Greece, to Zsekic, Hungary, dark sky parks are preserving a view of the stars for locals and tourists alike.

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

The easy 3-mile drive to Firehole Lake or the drive over Dunraven Pass will help you slip away from the crowds to maximize ...

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way — the ...

For years, Arlene Jurewicz-Leighton taught online courses for science educators. She noticed that her home in Lincolnville ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

As one of the last remaining areas in South Wales with truly dark skies, Gower National Landscape will be protected from ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

Most people in North America cannot see the Milky Way in the night sky from where they live. This is because of light ...

A strange break in a stream of stars in the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter, but only if the dark matter is hot and self-interacting.