When the sun is straight up at noon, you see blue sky because all the other colors in the spectrum up until blue and purple ...

Discover Hanle, India's first dark sky reserve, where stargazing fosters community, protects the environment, and boosts ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Daniel Brown, Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent ...

The Messier 42 Nebula, popularly called the Orion Nebula, is part of the constellation Orion. Nebulae are fields of gasses and dust, where stars are formed. (Photo by Peter Lipscomb) Editor’s Note: ...

If you've seen the dark skies over places like the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, you know what we're talking about here. More and more Colorado communities are looking into officially ...

Look up on a clear sunny day and you will see a blue sky. But is this the true color of the sky? Or is it the only color of the sky? The answers are a little complicated, but they involve the nature ...

Spot November’s supermoon, Leonids peak, and Uranus at opposition, plus a dark-sky new moon and a Moon-Saturn pairing. Here’s ...

Back on the evening of May 10 a rare display of the aurora borealis splashed color across the skies of our area. Amateur astronomers who follow night sky happenings knew the first thing they needed to ...

The skies over St. Petersburg, Florida, turned purple as Hurricane Milton approached the Florida coast last week, a phenomenon that has been seen in other hurricanes such as Delta, Dorian, and even ...

In April 2021, astronomy educator John Heasley set out to see just how dark the skies were in southwestern Wisconsin's Vernon County. He measured the brightness of the night sky in three public ...

BLUE SKIES. By T.C. Boyle. Liveright. 384 pages. $30. There have been entire shelves of non-fiction books written about climate change. I’ve reviewed quite a few. They’re packed with truly frightening ...