Inverclyde astronomy expert Stephen McAllister explains how he went about capturing the Andromeda galaxy on camera.

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

DID you know there’s a place in the UK so dark that you can see planets, shooting stars, and even the Northern Lights. There’s an observatory in Northumberland nestled in a huge ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

New research suggests that the Milky Way and our entire Local Group of galaxies are embedded in a vast sheet of dark matter, challenging traditional cosmological models.

The enigma ties in with the American astronomer Edwin Hubble’s discovery nearly a century ago that the universe is expanding.

This galactic collision might be more impactful than you think.

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s bright core returning to view in the Northern Hemisphere.

India's diverse geography from high-altitude cold deserts to vast salt flats offers some of the most pristine "Dark Sky" ...

The solution to a persistent astronomical question that has puzzled scientists for half a century has emerged not from direct ...