More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

The visibility of the night sky in New Zealand appears to be following a similar trend. Between 2012 and 2021, the area affected by light pollution grew at a rate of 4.2% above the global average.

Beginning just after sunset, you’ll follow a one-mile loop through the towering saguaros and desert landscape, while learning ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

When the sun sets and the lights go out, the sky comes alive in ways that feel almost magical. From desert horizons to ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

Lying on stacked cushions on the roof of a lodge in Jordan’s Dana Biosphere Reserve, I watch a beam of green light shoot into the sky as our guide circles a constellation with the most powerful laser ...

Fireworks and football go hand in hand. Both are colorful, fast moving, loud and dangerous. The varieties of pyro all come ...

When night falls in Wadi Rum, the sky comes into view with a clarity most places lost long ago. Thanks to the desert’s isolation, elevation, and lack of light pollution, the Milky Way stretches ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...