Mark Messier celebrates his 62nd birthday today. Although it has been more than three decades since Messier joined the Rangers and nearly two decades since he played his final NHL game, the impact ...

Star clusters are among the most beautiful objects in the heavens, and the late summer sky features one of the finest of them all. Just to the south of the tail of Aquila, the Eagle, and in the tiny ...

Mark Messier doesn’t need to let his mind wander to the Rangers’ epic Game 7 Stanley Cup championship victory because New Yorkers are always bringing it up to him. Messier and legendary actor Danny ...

Photographer Alan Dyer observes the star clusters Messier 7 and Messier 6 near the horizon above Montana’s Sweetgrass Hills—two of the deep-sky objects included in the Messier Marathon. Alan Dyer, ...

This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (the Shield). Messier 11 is also known as the Wild […] ...

Mark Messier played in nine Game 7s throughout his 25-year NHL career. He went 7-2 in those contests, and two of the games resulted in Stanley Cup-clinching victories. He’s widely regarded as one of ...