Two properties in Queenstown are at the vanguard of sustainability. They’re doing it with “net positive” engineering—and star power.

A new study suggests the Sun moved outward with many similar stars during a large Milky Way migration event long ago.

Cruises offer a unique opportunity for astrotourism by providing minimal light pollution, unobstructed horizon views and the ...

Craig Childs’ book serves as both a eulogy for the loss of dark skies and a celebration of what we can see and learn when we ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured views of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud with its NIRCam ...

For billions of years before reaching its current location, the Sun may have slowly travelled as part of a large group, or “wave,” of stars drifting out from the inner parts of the Milky Way. This ...

Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of ...

Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...

The Sun has been a powerful source of energy fueling the solar system for billions of years, but our host star may have had rough beginnings. A new study suggests the Sun migrated away from the center ...

The Sun orbits in the thin disk of the Milky Way. It's located 27,000 light-years (8.3 kiloparsecs) from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of the Orion spiral arm. It orbits around the galaxy ...

Milky Way billions of years ago. This remarkable journey, revealed through the most detailed catalog of similar stars to date ...