Nightscape astrophotography combines the beauty of the night sky with gorgeous landscapes after dark. While some compositions can take hours to capture, with multiple tracked shots of the sky and ...

About 80% of Americans can't see the Milky Way due to artificial light pollution. A new study shows where it has gotten worse.

Astrophotographer Josh Dury shared stunning images of the night sky that included the Milky Way, the Lyrid meteor shower and ...

On May 10, 2024, something unusual happened. Babak Tafreshi packed up his camera equipment and drove just an hour north of his home in Massachusetts to photograph the northern lights. For the first ...

Stars shine in these heavenly images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Depictions of catlike animals are visible on stones under a rotating, starry sky. Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries ...

Everything you absolutely need to know about selecting, using and optimizing your astrophotography equipment for the best possible astrophotos, from smartphones, to telescopes and mirrorless cameras.

As I stumbled over rocks through pitch darkness, following a guy I had just met online, I began to question my life choices. It was the middle of the night, and I was wandering through a remote desert ...

Samsung added astrophotography features to the Galaxy S22 lineup and has included it with subsequent Galaxy S phones, including the latest Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. The feature is called Astrophoto ...

Artists have been fascinated by the night sky and its dazzling cosmos for centuries. From Van Gogh’s trippy The Starry Night (1889) to Théodore Géricault’s eerie, green-tinged After the Deluge (1819) ...

Extremely bright satellites and megaconstellations could make the night sky up to three times brighter than it is now, a new ...

May's bright stars and classic spring constellations make this the perfect time to learn the sky the old-fashioned way, one ...