The New Year starts with a bang as Quandrantids peaks on Jan. 2 and 3. This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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.

Naturally, the same goes for the sunset. Since the winter solstice, the sun has been setting progressively later at a faster rate than it has been rising, which is why days are getting longer despite ...

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 ...

The new year will be a busy one in the night sky with celestial sights of all types for everyone to enjoy, many of which can be viewed without needing a telescope or traveling hundreds of miles to see ...

The telescope, which has a $242 million price tag, was developed to survey more than 450 million galaxies and 100 million stars in our own Milky Way. Some galaxies it will ... look for Venus and ...

Summer nights mean late sunsets and lingering twilight, hardly a recipe for great night-sky observing. But this January exceeds expectations with fine views of four bright planets. Venus punches ...

Using a novel technique applied to a large sample of stars with spectroscopic parameters from the APOGEE survey, which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the researchers mapped the stellar ...

Throughout the summer, rangers lead talks and presentations on preserving ... activities—until it was named a Dark Sky Sanctuary in 2020. Here sky gazers can see the Milky Way; Mercury, Venus, Mars, ...

D9 is the first star pair ever found near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This image shows an emission ... Credit: ESO, IAU and Sky & Telescope The team is ...

There are approximately twenty billion Sun-like stars in the Milky Way ... s central point: the way a society talks about UFOs provides insights into its deepest fantasies. People have been seeing ...