Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park ...

As dark sky sanctuaries grow in popularity, scientists are revealing more of the benefits of darkness—from repairing DNA to improving your mental health.

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. It's hard to be modest when you live in the Milky Way. Our galaxy is far larger, brighter, and more massive than most ...

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." Astronomers have captured a "zoomed-in" image of a star outside the Milky ...

Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes ... and a pull-out section with a mosaic of all 50 plates combined in a single ...

In winter, as the Earth spins, the Milky Way appears to rise in the evening ... Apps can let you: stitch photos together to make a panorama remove haze and noise increase clarity adjust colour ...