Every year, the Capture the Atlas Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest brings together some of the most striking night ...

A sky so clear it felt unreal, recalls featured photographer in the 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year ...

Milky Way photography goes beyond capturing the stars. It becomes a way to explore remote environments, challenge physical ...

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 ...

May’s flower moon rose in twilight on Friday, setting the stage for a rare second full moon — a blue moon — later in the ...

I love taking wide-field images of the night sky. Revealing the hidden depths of a large swath of the heavens in a long-exposure photograph shows me that space isn’t actually empty — it’s filled with ...

The image title Geminid Symphony Over La Palma’s Guardian of the Sky was Fink's first successful capture of the Gum Nebula – ...

Photos from around the space team.

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 ...

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) ...