The night sky isn’t perfectly dark—instead it glows faintly, and the source isn’t exactly local By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings Zodiacal light over Padar Island, Indonesia.

Pop the popcorn! It's time to snuggle up on the couch for family movie night with the best cartoon movies of all time. Family ...

First images from new observatory bring night sky to life ‘like never before’ - The images reveal millions of twinkling stars ...

This week, sky watchers in the upper United States, Canada and Europe have spotted a flurry of shimmering, ghostlike wisps in the night sky. The blue-silver streaks shine brightly only after the ...

A rare "super blue moon" will be lighting up the night sky at the tail end of August 2023. While blue moons usually look like ordinary full moons, they sometimes can give off a blueish tint.

So the sky isn’t blue, at least not always. It is a glow-in-the-dark night sky too, colored a mix of green, yellow, and red. Its colors result from scattered sunlight, oxygen, and sodium from ...

DreamWorks Animation’s latest feature, “Orion and the Dark,” is all but guaranteed to surprise you.It’s skipping theaters and going straight to Netflix, for starters. On a story level, it ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you ...

Today, the organization Dark Skies International has certified 15 Colorado parks and towns as official Dark Sky Places. But you can still enjoy the night sky even if you can’t make it to one of these ...

A weird blue spiral of light, captured on photo in the night sky? As much as we might want it to be, we know by now that it's not aliens (it's never aliens, OK?). But little green men aside, the ...

This summer, Lumican plans to install about 500 of its lights in Jasper, Alberta, located within Jasper National Park, said to be the second-largest dark sky preserve in the world.

The model’s threshold for significant light pollution was when the night sky directly overhead was calculated to become just 1 percent brighter than its ink-black natural state.