If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars. But these sparkling lights are just a tiny fraction of our cosmic ...

Shutterstock The Grand Canyon State is a Certified Stargazing Paradise Arizona has some of the darkest, clearest skies in the ...

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

Riverside forests in Brazil have facilitated continuous tree migration between the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests. DNA ...

Astrotourism has become popular among tourists who want to get away from the city lights and enjoy the magnificient views of ...

Legendary travel publication National Geographic has shared a new list of the top "eight activities to do under the stars in ...

Adventure doesn’t stop after dark in Scotland, from twilight kayaking along the River Tay to pitch-black bungee jumps in the ...

The cosmic glories of the night sky above the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks will be celebrated during ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

For those looking to escape the winter weather and enjoy dark skies, the southern United States offers plenty of options.

Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral nebulas visible through telescopes were, in fact, other galaxies in their own right. The scale of ...

Forest fires fueled by a heat wave scorched a picturesque corner of Argentina's Patagonia region Thursday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of homes. Strong winds and high temperatures fed a ...