The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee ...

Multiple space agencies will send missions to the moon this decade and the next, with plans to establish infrastructure that ...

Arizona’s dark sky cities are turning the state into a top astrotourism destination. Valley 101 explores why visitors prefer ...

The Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, which has offered educational programs about the nature of central Oregon since ...

The Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has been used to capture an amazing view of a star-forming region known as the Lobster Nebula. It is 8000 ...

The observatory will complete more than 11,000 orbits over its 25 months of planned survey operations, circling Earth about 14½ times per day on a north-to-south trajectory passing over the poles.

The waning moon helped to provide the dark sky to enable the Milky Way to stand out. The area is also known as the Pine River Rock Dam. The Crosslake Police Department patrols the area to keep the ...

This borehole was drilled in the Core Shed area of the McLaughlin Natural Reserve. This area is a grassy flat with low shrubs and a few introduced trees, and the Homestake Core Shed houses archived ...

In Montana, there are already two designated dark sky sites in Glacier National Park and Medicine Rocks State Park, both certified by the International Dark Sky Association. But in a state that ...

Big Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise is available now as a deluxe, double clear vinyl available exclusively at Complex Shop. The six-time Grammy nominee’s third studio album is available now at the ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14.5 times each day as it images a single, circular strip of the sky.