What astronomers recently discovered about space using supercomputers Markets swing after Trump backs away from reports that ...

His Bavarian forest sound installation, "Nature of the Night Sky," can be experienced every evening at sundown through September 18th. You can learn more at his website, JeffTalman.com. This is ...

For some reason most people think the North Star—called Polaris—is the brightest star in the night sky, probably because it’s one of the few that they can easily name.

In Arizona, Kartchner Caverns State Park and Petrified Forest National Park are among the locations that have achieved dark-sky status. At Grand Canyon, Lane said, 34% of the 5,000 lights in 2016 ...

Lintern advises reading up on the night sky before heading out. Free mobile apps, such as Star Walk 2 , can help identify celestial bodies and are easy to use—simply point your phone at the sky ...

According to NASA, it’s been nearly 400 years since the planets passed this close to each other in the sky, and nearly 800 years since the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter occurred at night, as ...

The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new ...

This gorgeous eight-hour exposure reveals the colors of stars as they make their way across the night sky, colors that can inform astronomers about the characteristics of each star.

For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars ...

On May 24, 2015, at 3 a.m., filmmaker Ben Canales sat on a ridge overlooking the gleaming lights of Telluride, Colorado. One by one, blocks of streetlamps winked off far below. Canales had ...

Sure, there are plenty of places in Wisconsin where the sky gets dark enough — unimpeded by city lights — to see it awash with stars. But perhaps you're looking for a stargazing spot that's ...