It’s International Dark Sky Week, a worldwide celebration that was started in 2003 to raise awareness about light pollution.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

In a state that offers roughly 30 million acres of protected federal and state land and the third-lowest population density ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

But only 20% of people in the U.S. can see the Milky Way when they gaze up into the night sky. Danielle Adams with the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition said the city is one of the rare and lucky ...

surrounded by a night sky so free of moisture and light pollution there was no black, just layer upon layer of pinpricks of light, the Milky Way glowing like a road that seemed as close as the ...