A truly dark night sky is getting harder and harder to find. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When I was a young boy growing ...

Blue supermoon lights up the night sky tonight - and it's the last chance to see one until 2037. ... Mars study shows body of water big enough to 'form a global ocean' 12 miles deep in Martian rocks; ...

In a 2023 survey of 634 visitors of nine International Dark Sky Parks, 61.8% of Utah's state and national park visitors participated in a night sky recreation activity.

The night sky isn’t perfectly dark—instead it glows faintly, and the source isn’t exactly local By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings Zodiacal light over Padar Island, Indonesia.

By mid-August, the Milky Way will be visible by 10 p.m. and be directly overhead by midnight –– perfect dark sky conditions for making this hazy band of stars pop.

The International Dark-Sky Association's accredited "Dark Sky Places" provide visitors ... away from the relative safety of the ocean. ... light at night – particularly blue-rich ...

What To Watch For In The Night Sky This Week: April 5-11, 2021 It’s International Dark Sky Week , which for the second year in a row will be a virtual event.

See the ocean’s glow-in-the-dark world on a fluorescent night dive. These kaleidoscopic swims help us better understand and protect our seas. Here’s why—and where—to try it.

The data shows that the night sky got, on average, 9.6% brighter every year. For many people, the night sky today is twice as bright as it was eight years ago. The brighter the sky, the fewer ...

Since the 1980s, I’ve gotten special permission to be at the top of Grandfather Mountain in western North Carolina for all-night viewing and photography of the night sky.