It reminds you how small we are and how easy it is to find a diversion with your old friend, the camera. It doesn’t take a lot of expensive equipment to take good photos of the heavens.

The night sky at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in western Colorado (Photo by Bettymaya Foott). Foott was in college, interested in the environment and sustainability, when she discovered ...

As the stars move across the night sky, an exposure time that’s too long will cause them to blur. To freeze the stars as points of light, keep your shutter speed to no longer than 20 seconds.

A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from Earth.

Every star labeled on this map of Hercules, Boötes, and Ursa Major is a double star, worth exploring with a small telescope. Some, like Mizar in the Dipper's handle, can be split with the naked eye.

Massive panorama of night sky, with 25 million stars, took two years to create. Nov. 24, 2009 — -- Axel Mellinger says that by the age of 12, he was in love with night. He stayed up late with ...

Probably the most colorful double star in the night sky can now be found about two-thirds of the way up from the eastern horizon to the point directly overhead at 10 p.m. local daylight time ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A galactic photo shoot has captured more than 3 billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest sky surveys ever.

The new Milky Way dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects. Here, a low-resolution image of the data, right, is overlaid on an image showing the full sky.