The best astrophotos usually feature the landscape ... against the Milky Way backdrop. Then there's "light painting", which illuminates objects in the foreground of a photo. For this, you'll ...

Something wonderful has happened in photography: Ordinary people can now photograph the universe. Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find ...

This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that ... The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

The new image of a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud combines data from different wavelengths to provide this highly-detailed photo ... section of the Milky Way.