The U.S. Board of Geographic Names agreed Wednesday to rename Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi, the Cherokee name for the mountain that means "mulberry place," according to a news release from the ...

I highly suggest anyone who is capable to hike the trail to Clingmans Dome to do so! This is a paved trail the entire way ...

Tape the next two longs together, and so on all the way around. 6. Connect the tops of these new triangles with a row of shorts. (The dome will start curving inward.) 7. At each joint where four ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

with an inch or more possible above 3,500 feet and potentially several inches accumulating at the peaks of mountains such as Clingmans Dome and Mount Guyot, according to the FOX Forecast Center.

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. It's hard to be modest when you live in the Milky Way. Our galaxy is far larger, brighter, and more massive than most ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.