Stargazing is now more popular than ever, with images of the Northern Lights regularly flooding social media causing many of ...

The narrow wedge of the zodiacal light (left) reaches nearly to the Milky Way (right) on Nov. 1 from near Kenton, Oklahoma. The zodiacal light stands high in the eastern sky this time of year but ...

Look above Venus for the bright star ... You'll need binoculars to see it — as well as a dark, clear sky. It’s a long-period comet from the Oort Cloud, a sphere around the solar system that ...

As the sky turned a deep shade of blue, stars began to appear above Hovenweep National Monument, Utah, one of the world’s first Dark Sky Parks ... glasses while thick clouds blocked the view ...

(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 ...

Joya-La Barreta Ecological Park’s dark-sky status is under constant threat from increasing light pollution and urbanization ...