Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need a ton of crazy equipment or fancy gear to shoot the night sky. Grab a sturdy ...

Other good stops for stargazing are on Palomar Mountain, “especially going down East Grade Road and overlooking Lake Henshaw. There is a viewing platform about a mile up Highway S-7 (East Grade Road) ...

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the massive Stephenson 2 cluster about 19,000 light-years away, has been caught ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director ...

Malorie Thorson, a 20-year-old from the town of Waverly, was crowned as the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way on Wednesday ...

Since a black moon is a new moon, you might be able to spot the Milky Way and the dumbbell nebula. A rare black moon will ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

Malorie Thorson braved a chilled booth as sculptor Gerry Kulzer carved her likeness from a 41-kilogram block of butter, a ...

A so-called black moon occurs once every two to three years, according to an expert from the Adler Planetarium.

The 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way sat bundled up in a 40-degree rotating cooler as an artist sculpted her likeness from ...

Malorie Thorson, the newly crowned 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way, has embraced a unique tradition at the Minnesota State ...