For generations, humans have gazed at the stars and wondered about the ultimate fate of the universe. Will it expand forever ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

International Dark Sky Week is a global celebration that is dedicated to appreciate the night sky and raises awareness of the effects of light pollution. This international week, held annually in ...

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

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 ...