A dazzling display of the Milky Way and a beautiful shot of Chanctonbury Ring are among the winners of this year’s astrophotography competition. This year broke a record since the contest’s inception ...

In January 2025, the city added another feather to its cap when it launched a new Astro Trail, a curated collection of ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

From supermoons to a total eclipse to the national park’s biggest and best-attended star parties, these are the must-see celestial shows of the year ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

[COMING SOON: Check out the roller coasters coming to Epic Universe, Universal Orlando’s 4th theme park] “Ride the ...

Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating the beauty and importance of dark skies. Big Cypress National Preserve, designated an International Dark Sky Park in 2016 by the International Dark-Sky ...

Amateur astronomers and beginners will find the Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope useful for capturing shots of the night sky with the ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.

While landscapes and wildlife usually come to mind when thinking about units of the National Park System, there are national ...