With astrotourism on the rise, the Hipcamp Awards this year includes a category for campsites with dark skies. Here are the ...

Folks think I've lost my mind when I suggest the best time of year to visit me for stargazing here in the Southern California desert is during late July and early August. Yes, the days are scorchingly ...

Beyond the Milky Way lies the Great Attractor, a gravitational anomaly that is expanding non-uniformly. It is also drawing our Galaxy, as well as the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy.

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

Tucked into the San Gabriel Mountains just 90 minutes from Los Angeles, this alpine hamlet offers a perfect day trip for stressed-out urbanites or a weekend sanctuary for those wise enough to extend ...

Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

Starting at the end of next week, the month of July will see a lot of moonless evenings for terrific stargazing opportunities ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s vast, super-hot Fermi bubbles—structures thought to be created by a recent, ...