Nevada is one of very few places left in the country where there is so little artificial light the Milky Way is visible to ...

The sunrise never quite made its grand entrance over the First Coast Thursday morning. Instead, a thick blanket of clouds kept the sky in shades of gray.

Amateur astronomers who follow night sky happenings knew the first thing they needed to do to see the northern lights display ...

(When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... spiral arms of stars and dust clouds. Being able to take a ...

They’re called “noctilucent clouds” because they glow in the dark (hence “lucent,” which is derived from the Latin word for light, and “nocti,” which comes from the word “night”).

Arizona's dark skies are a haven for astronomers and photographers. Some communities are fighting to keep them that way.

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. During last April's solar ...