Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

Death Valley National Park offers some of the best stargazing in America, with DarkSky International having designated it as a Gold Tier Dark Sky Park.

Light pollution is the spill or glow of lights upward, into the sky. Lights help us ... In 1917, he said you could see the Milky Way from the Paris observatory during summer when the sun was ...

With the Moon waning we’re about to have short, but dark night skies ideal for seeing the arc of our own Milky Way galaxy ... in the sky during 2022. It marks the first day of summer in the ...

First the Milky Way has to rise high enough in the sky to be dramatic before dawn floods ... And that’s why my young friend, a summer ranger at the park, has agreed to my crazy idea of coming ...

In winter, the Milky Way stretches across the southern sky revealing an ancient indigenous constellation called the Emu in the Sky and Scorpius the scorpion. The summer sky is dominated by Orion ...

Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by a self-interacting dark matter subhalo. New research points to a dark matter subhalo as the architect behind the unique ...

In the summer months, we look into the center of the Milky Way, a huge collection of stars (most of which are not visible) that create a light haze in the sky. In the winter, when New Jersey faces ...

Catch a view of the Milky Way at these national ... level by the International Dark Sky Organization, making this park a must-see for stargazers. The best time of year to visit Death Valley is in the ...

Browns Canyon National Monument, a 21,586-acre protected natural area in central Colorado, achieved International Dark Sky Park certification ...

The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and gas.