April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

For celestial enthusiasts, the past several days have been a celebration of the night. This week is International Dark Sky Week. Founded in 2003 by Jennifer Barlow, then a 15-year-old high school ...

Thursday will be a milky white sky kind of day as humidity levels run elevated. A few sprinkles early but for the most part, ...

Palo Alto City Council member Greer Stone's regulation would target light pollution through nightly curfews and by requiring ...

Some of the world’s darkest skies are in the Big Bend region of West Texas – although in recent years, light pollution from ...

Dramatic dashcam footage captured this week showed something that wouldn’t be out of place in a sci-fi film – space coming to ...

Elvis Presley was sitting outside one night looking at the stars with his friend and fan Wanda June Hill when he made a ...

On a tranquil summer evening, just as the sun dips below the horizon and darkness begins to settle, an ethereal spectacle ...

"Just as blue sunlight scatters in the Earth's atmosphere and makes the sun look slightly less blue, light from a strong blue, rich white street light enters your eyeball, scatters around in your ...

Known for creating ribbons of colorful light in the night sky, the aurora borealis are polar lights, or aurora polaris, that ...