Norris, a former aerospace engineer turned landscape photographer, teaches some of his dark-sky photography workshops via the Desert Institute at Joshua Tree National Park, a nonprofit cooperating ...

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

From the desert floor, the eye behind the camera saw the comet just to the left of a red-rock formation in the foreground. That mysterious image was named picture of the year by Time magazine in 1997.

You can take majestic night sky photography in Joshua Tree. Here’s a class for that Joshua Tree during a dark-sky photography workshop, lead by the Desert Institute.

Top 5: The World's Best Stargazing Sites Explore five incredible destinations for sky-watchers, like the top of a crater or beneath the star-studded sky in the middle of the desert.

The night sky over the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in the Chile's Atacama Desert glows colorfully with the stars of the Milky Way, Mars' orange sparkle, many constellations ...

In A.D. 37, a great red aurora showed itself to the citizens of Rome. Those in London gazed up at a red sky in September 1839. A blazing display in 1938 lit the sands of the Sahara Desert in ...

Missions typically took place twice a day – from about 2 -3:30 pm, and 9:00 – 10:30 pm. Having observed the exercise in daylight from areas near Rachel, NV, I determined to experience the ...

Offered three times a week, the experience includes guided telescope observations and provides insight on everything that’s visible in the Sonoran Desert night sky. 11. Carneros Resort and Spa ...

Driving through Chile’s Atacama Desert can be disorienting, and travelers may mistake an unusual monument for a mirage. But Hand of the Desert is indeed a 36-foot hand rising from the sand.