For generations, AlUla’s clear skies have played a meaningful role in marking the start of Ramadan, when locals would look to the horizon to sight the new moon and confirm the Holy Month. Today, that ...

About three years ago, Martha Ferguson woke up at her residence in Old Snowmass at 3:30 a.m. to study a life-long interest: the night sky.

Liberty Hill, Texas, just earned the title of International Dark Sky Community, focusing on outdoor lighting policies to ...

The Milky Way owes its iconic name not to modern astrophysics but to an Ancient Greek myth involving Zeus, Hera, and a splash of divine milk.

Above the Paranal Observatory in Chile, a mesmerizing scene unfolds, Chilean astrophotographer Alexis Trigo captured the ...

Beneath a stream of radio noise gathered over the course of a long night of observation, the signal came in quietly.

Astrophotographer takes top honors in global photography competition with 'Hands of God' – a one-exposure shot captured in Chile's Desert ...

South African Kyle Goetsch’s images of nature and night skies showcase the region as a destination for astrophotography.

Of the thousands of single-star systems in our galaxy, around 10% are known to have planets. Scientists thus expected about ...

With the Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year upon us, firework events will illuminate the night sky across the world from ...

Supernova 1987A appeared in the far-southern constellation of Doradus (the Swordfish), in which the Large Magellanic Cloud is ...

Judge Dan Oakley, a dark skies expert and photographer, described the shot as "straight out of Star Trek". Other winners include Richard Murray, whose image of a snail beneath The Plough asterism won ...