When millions of people turn off their lights for Earth Hour each year, something remarkable happens in the night sky above ...

Eighty percent of Americans can no longer see the Milky Way. This is one of the reasons Gov. Jared Polis is to be commended for proclaiming June the state’s first Dark Sky Month.

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

There’s something truly special about a night spent camping under the stars, but did you know that some places are deemed ...

We could talk about the beauty of the night sky, and how many people have never truly seen it. A report published earlier this summer in the journal Science Advances found that 80 percent of ...

The comet NEOWISE is seen in the night sky beyond a cutout of a buffalo on Tuesday on a hillside near Elmdale, Kan. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a ...

Hotel Ursa in Orono has launched a celestial experience with Shawn Laatsch, a pioneer of the world’s first 3-D stereoscopic ...

One look at a light pollution map Dark Sky Map can be pretty upsetting. Whole swaths of the earth, especially in North America, Europe and Asia have basically erased the night sky. Probably the only ...

The greatest outdoors of all is right above us — the stars in the night sky. It’s also a sight many people never get to see. There are many sorts of pollution in the world. One kind we don’t ...

Editorial Island Voices Column: Satellites pollute isles’ famed night sky. ... and darken the beauty of the night sky. The nighttime sky has lost its virginity, and there’s no going back.