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.

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, ...

Welcome to Red Rock Canyon State Park in Cantil, California, where 27,000 acres of Mars-like terrain erupts from the Mojave Desert floor in a geological spectacle that defies both expectation and ...

Welcome to Red Rock Canyon State Park. Tucked away in Cantil, California, where the Mojave Desert meets the southernmost tip ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...