Summer stargazing begins with some spectacular sights, including the hyped conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, which get close ...

Light pollution is erasing the night sky for most of the world’s population — and travelers are paying real money to get it back. Dark sky tourism, the fast-growing travel trend built around visiting ...

Dark sky tourism is one of the fastest-growing travel trends in the world, with travelers chasing aurora displays, Milky Way views and meteor showers in places where artificial light pollution barely ...

It takes a moment for the eyes to adjust. A faint spark appears in the darkness; then another, brighter one. Soon, stars, planets and entire constellations emerge. Before long, a whole galaxy ...

DAVIS MOUNTAINS STATE PARK, TEXAS — It’s a packed night at McDonald Observatory, where dozens of people are crowding around high-powered telescopes as a thunderstorm rolls off to the east. Locals and ...

Light pollution in Waterville leaks into the night sky after midnight in May of 2021, as seen from Blueberry Hill in Rome.

You may not realize it, but most people today have never seen a truly dark sky. Light pollution is making Earth’s nights up to 10% brighter every year, gradually hiding stars, galaxies and even the ...

This week, 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. Yet, ironically, the ...

BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE, Fla. (WINK)—When the sun goes down in the Everglades, a whole different world lights up, but even in a place this remote, new threats are starting to show up in the sky.