Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

I’m continuing my cold-weather adventure in the Canadian sub-arctic on the shores of Hudson Bay. Day three and the images I’m capturing of polar bears have been mind-blowing. On two different ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama ...

South African MeerKAT radio telescope, an array of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park in the country's Northern ... light-years away and reckoned to be 32 times the size of our Milky Way galaxy.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.