Royalty can have a way of generating excitement, and at the Minnesota State Fair, the exhilaration was nearly tangible as ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

An artist’s impression of our Milky Way Galaxy, showing the location of the Sun. Our Solar System is about 27,000 light years from the centre of the galaxy. The nearest technological species could be ...

Fathi's image captures a swarm of bright Perseid meteors streaking across the dense dust lanes and glowing heart of the Milky ...

September is the Autumnal Equinox — the beginning of fall — in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s a look at “What’s up in the sky” in the D.C. region this month.

Sadly, summer comes to an end this month. But the great news for stargazing over Butler this September is that there’s so much happening in the heavens and along with that, there’s still plenty of ...

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

An explanation of why some argue it's better to photograph the Milky Way in summer and how to do it, including the best ...

Photographs are sentimental and preserve memories but keeping a stack of them lying around or stored on your phone isn’t practical. To save space and maximize your photo storage options, purchase a ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of billions of stars. Our pioneering stargazer has reshaped our view of the skies ...

A shooting star streaks across the Milky Way's luminous arm, its brilliant trail dissolving into the velvet darkness that blankets West Texas. Out here, 300 miles from Houston's glowing sprawl, the ...

August continues to be a great month to check out the skies. This month offers one of the best opportunities to see the Milky Way. The center of our galaxy is teeming with billions of stars that ...