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.

The competition was held ahead of the Dark Skies Festival held by the national park, which is one of 22 International Dark Sky Reserves in the world.

This January, milk spilt across the collective cultural consciousness in Nicole Kidman’s much-hyped film, Babygirl. Even if ...

The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...

The BJP won a decisive victory in the Delhi Assembly elections, ending its 27-year exile from power in the national capital.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 31 January and 7 February. Send your photos to ...

Looking up into the dark Wyoming night sky, all the stars in the Milky Way were shining so brightly it looked like white paint had been splashed across the sky from horizon to horizon. I blinked ...