Arizona's dark skies are a haven for astronomers and photographers. Some communities are fighting to keep them that way.

Every single star you can see is part of the Milky Way, but we’re talking here about seeing the densest part—that diffuse, “milky” glow of billions of stars. Our satellite is the biggest ...

However, there’s a catch—to see the Milky Way, you’ll need very dark skies ... Barentine used to manage the International ...

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The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

The arc of the Milky Way is visible in the southwest right after ... Look low in the northeast after dark and you’ll see a very bright star rising. That’s Capella, the “golden star ...

Full Snow Moon Photos! 🌕 Night sky tonight! "Flares are expected to happen in essentially all supermassive black holes, but our black hole is unique." ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

These shots of the Milky Way were taken by 25-year-old photographer Stephen Bank over the past month They include some of the county's most iconic locations such as the renowned beauty spot Durdle ...

Every star that you see in the sky is part of the same enormous galaxy. Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a ... Edwin Hubble would be amazed to see such progress.