Here are a few tips and tricks photographer Harrison Jones has learned from more than a decade of photographing fireworks.

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

The sky will still be a little bit light as civil twilight, when the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon, ends at 8:49 p.m. Jupiter will therefore be hard to see, but as the sky gets darker it will ...

Even if the sun were blocked, the moon would be facing away from us, showing the dark side, which would just be black on a black background. New moon of April 2025 sees Venus and Saturn join up in ...

This year, International Dark Sky Week runs from April 21 to April 28, 2025—and the Land of 10,000 Lakes is one of the best places to celebrate this annual festival of the firmament. In case you ...

A rare celestial event is set to captivate skywatchers in January 2025, when six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

I had my suspicions, but I asked Sten Odenwald, an astronomer and educator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center why it’s so hard to take a decent picture of the drones with your phone. He ...

Of course the sky is dark at night.” But that answer is wrong or, at best, incomplete, and the actual situation wasn’t obvious even to eminent scientists a century or so ago.

A decently dark site in a rural area has a sky background of about 21 mag/arcsec 2. In the Rocky Mountains in Colorado I’ve been to sites a bit darker than this, and it’s truly spectacular.

Lynn Fallon, tour manager of local attraction Mystic Mountain, says the night-sky journey attracted people of all ages and backgrounds. "The experience changes one's perspective of the big picture ...

Olbers’ Paradox, also known as the dark sky paradox, is an apparent contradiction about why the night sky is dark instead of being completely illuminated by the light of an infinite number of stars.