Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological ...

Orion is one of the most easily recognized constellations in the night sky. (Getty Images) First find Sirius ... the Spot the Station program to see a map-based feature that tracks when the ...

From the Beehive Cluster to planets and constellations, these are the best sights to search for over the next couple months.

“You will be able to perceive the Milky Way, but the image ... night sky. When each of us found a shot that we liked, we were able to screenshot the composition on PhotoPills and drop a pin on ...

Getty Images A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets will line up and light up the night sky this ... an astronomy app like Sky Tonight. Find Saturn on the sky map, and use the Time Machine ...

You can find the Bortle Scale level for your night sky using the interactive map tool at lightpollutionmap.info. These images show how many more stars you can see in truly dark skies, outside of ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events ... Photograph by Diana Robinson Photography, Getty Images The Eta Aquariid meteor shower, active from April 20 to May 21, peaks on the ...

but the night of the peak will have the highest rates of meteors. The meteors appear to originate in the constellation Gemini, hence the name, but will be visible anywhere in the sky. Stock image ...

is still used by scientists to map objects in the sky. Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible ...

The northern lights get their name for lighting up the sky at higher latitudes. On Monday night, the phenomenon ... where the staff was posting images of the northern lights overnight.