With more Dark Sky Places than anywhere else in the world, Utah’s high deserts are giving visitors front-row seats to the ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

There’s something truly special about a night spent camping under the stars, but did you know that some places are deemed ...

The stars seem to change little if at all—night after night, ... and see how some of the astronomical objects discussed in Seeing in the Dark fit into the big picture. 1.

The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light Craig Childs, Torrey House Press, May 2025 ... Star cluster seen through the telescope at the University of Arizona’s Mt. Lemmon ...

And since this resolution built on a 2007 conference called the "International Conference in Defence of the Quality of the Night Sky and the Right to Observe Stars held jointly by UNESCO and the ...

In a world that's growing brighter by the year, one small gold rush town is working to keep its night dark and its skies full of stars.

These stars — which have a variety of names, including axion stars, boson stars and dark stars — can be small, roughly the same mass as normal, everyday stars. They can also be huge, spanning ...

While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has ...

Aotearoa New Zealand officially celebrates Matariki for the fourth time, marked by the reappearance in the night sky of the star cluster also known as the Pleiades.