The starry night sky can look like a salt shaker has tipped ... Here’s a guide to making the most of a summer Milky ...

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.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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 ...

Death Valley National Park is a land of extremes, from its steady drought and record summer heat to its snow ... it with images of the starry sky. "The Milky Way was captured around 8 or 9 p.m ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Sisters has been named Oregon's newest 'Dark Sky Community,' in recognition of the city’s efforts to curb light pollution.

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.