The goal was to create the most detailed and accurate map of the Milky Way ever. After taking images of the night sky for 13 years, the team has now published the map -- and it's absolutely massive.

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Learn how to find your way around the night sky. We’ll show you how ... to download an easy-to-follow sky map and make up your own tour. In winter, the Milky Way stretches across the southern ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

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 of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night" in the November 2008 National ...