Travel & Recreation Seeing the Stars: Small Towns and Rural Parks Pursue Dark Sky Goals The growing popularity of the dark sky movement has many rural communities leading the way in efforts to turn ...

Glacier National Park is an International Dark Sky Sanctuary. Visitors can see the Milky Way from St. Mary’s Glacier, pictured here. (Photo by Ray Stinson, National Park Service.) Editor’s Note: This ...

Where was I when a magenta aurora borealis could be seen as far south as Florida? Indoors and not paying enough attention. Thankfully, there are multiple apps for that. “Many visitors come to Dark Sky ...

If, like many people in the U.S., you have an amateur interest in astronomy, you may looke to the skies regularly, trying to pinpoint the evening star, or work out where Orion's Belt is. And the ...

Upstate New York offers ideal locations for stargazing due to minimal light pollution. Saturn, including its shadow transits by its moon Titan, will be a highlight for the remainder of 2025. Several ...