The International Dark Sky Association is a non-profit dedicated to protecting communities from light pollution, and of the ...

At just 300 light-years away, it’s one of the closest large gas clouds ever detected near Earth, and takes up as much sky as a typical constellation.

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy ...

Indoor portraits, still-life shots and product photography are easy enough, apart from those pesky, cluttered backgrounds ...

On Saturday, the sky above the District seemed to be about three things, each of them worthy of attention. They were rain, ...

Sky blue isn't a new color for Apple. It's the featured shade of the current M4 MacBook Air, a shimmer of cerulean so subtle ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Stargazers can see 10-20 Lyrid meteors per hour during its peak. This meteor shower also occasionally produces fireballs.

And Shatner saw “a cold, dark, black emptiness ... I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky.

"Just as blue sunlight scatters in the Earth's atmosphere and makes the sun look slightly less blue, light from a strong blue, rich white street light enters your eyeball, scatters around in your ...