Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has millions of fans worldwide who love the stunning images he captures and creates of the ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Stargazers across the Southern Hemisphere have been treated to views of a comet throughout the opening weeks of 2025. This past weekend, the cosmic spectacle became even more stunning as it ...

As a firm devotee of sun-and-sand holidays, I consider travelling to a freezing destination covered in snow might be ...

Would people travel to see the Milky Way like they do for the Great Barrier Reef? This tiny town thinks dark sky tourism is ...

Here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in February 2025: If you've been outside just after sunset in the last month, you'll know Venus dominates the post-sunset night sky. Tonight ...

Translating to ‘no trees’ in Latin, Nullarbor is a near-deserted landscape with the longest stretch of straight railway in ...

There’s a terminator in our midst. Squinting through a telescope, I see it. The fuzzy line (in non-astro speak) where the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of ... These glass plates recorded images of the night sky using a ...

the night sky and its stars for millennia, but that connection is fading. Due to light pollution, more than a third of the globe can no longer see the Milky Way, including 60 per cent of Europeans ...