A vertical panorama obtained from the Teide Observatory, which shows a bright Zodiacal light centred on the Teide volcano under snow (Teide National Park, Tenerife), with the Milky Way in winter, from ...

As the highest point on Tenerife, many travelers see Mount Teide peeking above the clouds as they land at the island’s airport. It is one of the highest volcanoes in the world and a national park.

13,796 feet above sea-level and isolated in the Pacific Ocean, the observatories at Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island offer some of the most pristine star-gazing conditions in the world. Tourists can ...

The immensity of the universe is beautiful and humbling—the stars reminders of billions of lives spent, in astronomer Carl Sagan’s words, “on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.” But as our ...

To his children, cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking once said, “Remember to look up at the stars and not down on your feet.” That’s solid advice, but pretty ineffectual if you’re ...

Brian May is no stranger to the Canary Islands’ largest island. The star first visited Tenerife back in 1970 to work on his PhD at the observatory high up in Teide National Park by an active volcano.

I should probably start with a confession for someone who writes about the night sky almost every day: until recently, I had never actually seen the Milky Way properly. Not as a bright, structured ...