A double winner in this year’s photo contest was Giles Embleton-Smith, from Eastbourne, who won both the ‘Life at Night’ category with a ‘hauntingly beautiful’ and ‘eerie’ image of Chanctonbury Ring, ...

A dazzling display of the Milky Way at Cuckmere Haven and a hauntingly beautiful shot of the legendary Chanctonbury Ring are among the winners of a South Downs competition.

While landscapes and wildlife usually come to mind when thinking about units of the National Park System, there are national ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

The viewer encounters special moments in the photos taken by our gallery photographers – splashing spray, intense gazes and ...

The self-made world-class astronomer and community houses manager talks to PJ TAYLOR about her amazing galactic journey.

From fiery festivals to nature's most dazzling "sky-dance", interest in the night skies is booming, with "noctourism" poised ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will appear together in a row throughout the start of February – although Neptune and Uranus will only be visible with binoculars or a telescope.

Let’s review three important sets of three cats. There’s Josie, Valerie, and Melody of Josie and the Pussycats. Felix, Tom, ...

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

Venus, the brightest point of light in the sky, is two and a half fists held upright and at arm’s length above the ...