You might be able to see the so-called 'smiley face' if you're just at the right spot. But this facial feature will only have ...

Northern Minnesota is home to some of the darkest and most pristine night skies in the United States. The Boundary Waters ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — It’s International Dark Sky City Week, and around the world, stargazers are commemorating efforts to keep the stars as visible as possible by keeping city lights to a ...

This week is International Dark Sky Week. Lights that are aimed upwards or not properly capped illuminate the atmosphere and ...

Travel experts have named the National Park among the top destinations in the UK for nature lovers to explore, as well as the ...

Spring in the northern hemisphere brings with it the promise for the Lyrids, the first good meteor shower of the season.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

The Milky Way is around 10 billion years old and is home to more than 100 billion stars. This suggests there is likely a mind-boggling number of potentially habitable planets in our home galaxy alone.

Images of the distant spiral galaxy are changing conceptions of the speed and process by which galaxies form.