The Milky Way is not just a band of stars stretching across the night sky; it's a massive, dynamic galaxy spanning over 200,000 light-years and containing hundreds of billions of stars, planets, and ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a spectacular image of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) shining close to the dark shape of the Seahorse Nebula.

Astrotourism is coming to Canada, thanks to an ambitious plan for a chain of six dark-sky sites along 100 miles of the ...

Picture yourself speeding across a vast desert, excitement pumping with every hill and valley you encounter in a dune buggy in Dubai. Then, imagine floating in a hot air balloon as dawn breaks, with ...

That’s what visiting Findley State Park in Wellington, Ohio feels like for your entire being. This 900-acre slice of paradise in Lorain County isn’t just another green spot on the map – it’s nature’s ...

That’s Shawnee National Forest for you—a sprawling 289,000-acre paradise tucked away in southern Illinois near Herod that somehow remains one of America’s most underrated natural wonders.

Telescopes always make a big showing at the Dark Sky Festival, if it has been too long since you've peered into the deeper ...

The largest dark sky sanctuary in the world is 2.4 million acres of volcanic landscape, deserts, and mountains. Learn how to plan your trip.

A team of astronomers has uncovered an unexpectedly complex and dynamic filamentary network within a very-high-velocity cloud ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda galaxy. Zoom in and explore.