The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's moon cluster together in the same region of the pre-dawn sky, making for a ...

Northern Minnesota is home to some of the darkest and most pristine night skies in the United States. The Boundary Waters ...

The Washoe County Commission is slated to issue a proclamation celebrating Nevada’s dark skies at a Tuesday meeting.

Students from the Reynolds School of Journalism immersed themselves in a weeklong adventure at La Selva Research Station ...

In a state that offers roughly 30 million acres of protected federal and state land and the third-lowest population density ...

From Lowell Observatory to Kitt Peak to Mount Graham, here are the 11 best planetariums and observatories in Arizona and ...

Venus, Saturn and the moon will form a triple conjunction, appearing to look like a smiley face in a sky. Here's how and when ...

Light pollution is worsening by 10 percent every year, and as our starry skies vanish ... or an open-air carriage for looking up at the night sky. A train ride offers the perfect chance to ...

A geomagnetic storm unleashed by the sun on Sunday could create colorful auroral displays over parts of the United States ...

"Just as blue sunlight scatters in the Earth's atmosphere and makes the sun look slightly less blue, light from a strong blue ...

"Eyes to the Sky" comes to you as the Full Pink Moon, the first full moon after the vernal equinox, rises tonight, April 12.

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...