Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Ordinary people can now photograph the universe. Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Astrophotography opens a window to the universe, whether that's photographing the northern lights or capturing the Milky Way. The best cameras for astrophotography need to perform exceptionally ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, a Dark Sky Preserve. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics ...

This is a photo capturing the unique rock pillars known as 'Pinnacles' in the Nambung National Park in Western Australia, ...

Shane Turgeon says he's been chasing the light ever since he had a nervous breakdown in 2012."It scared the hell out of me, and in the process of that, I discovered photography," Turgeon, 47, of ...