I photograph people with the Stars and Stripes and ask them what the flag means to them. Pictured here is retired Marine ...

From beautiful beaches to majestic mountains, these are the most popular—and most beloved—state parks across the United ...

June 2025 presents a unique chance to observe the Milky Way's core, visible from evening until dawn in dark locations.

On a clear night in 1994 ... also of International Dark-Sky Association. “Done carelessly, it could be devastating.” Beijing’s Olympic Park is brilliantly lit with blue-white LEDs suspended ...

A fortunate dozen spent a night with the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope, happy to be gazing at some great deep-sky ...

Surprise, surprise - you don’t have to fly that far away to find a Dark Sky Reserve for the ultimate stargazing experience.

There is nothing like the royal blue of an indigo bunting. In the Northeast, they arrive fashionably late to the spring fling ...

Astronomically speaking, June is laid back. No meteor showers of note, no eclipses and no bright comets are expected. But ...

Light pollution is another factor to consider, as it can conceal the full picture of the sky. To see the Milky Way in all its glory, you’ll want to keep the Bortle scale in mind. This scale measures ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like ... while a telescope could reveal hundreds more of the blue-white stellar bodies.

Light that artificially brightens the night sky disrupts humans’ circadian rhythms, or their natural sleep-wake cycle. Artificial light, particularly blue light, can disrupt the production of ...

Stars can be blue ... dark low in the southeastern sky. Although Sirius is predominantly a white star, you may also notice it twinkling red, white and blue. When stars appear lower in the night ...