Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

I spoke with some members of the five-person crew before going out with them for a sail on Narragansett Bay. When I asked ... like a mirror held up to the Milky Way. Guiding objects carefully ...

There’s a remote island off ... Mosquito Bay and the surrounding area have almost zero light pollution, giving you an unreal ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

It’s only during a wilderness camping trip or a power outage caused by extreme weather that 21st century Bay Area residents ...

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.

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

Light pollution can obstruct your view of catching spectacular cosmic sights like meteor showers, distant planets, the Milky Way galaxy, and this month's comet — Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

Currently he finds it a much more convenient way of administering his Raspberry Pi, but we can see a lot of use for this beyond the occasional headless server. Certainly this makes remote ...

Third is a handy way to find your TV remote if you've lost it. All you need to do is press the big Sky Q logo on the front of your TV box – yes, it's a button. That should cause your TV remote ...