For many city people, a clear night sky is a mythical beast. We’ve heard the legends inspired by the constellations and we know sailors used the stars to guide their way home, but urban light ...

The augmented reality feature connects to your phone’s camera, so that you can see a real-time, mapped out version of your night sky. Star Walk 2 not only tells you which celestial objects are ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much ...

A new study finds an Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass. When temperatures heat up, nocturnal Bogong moths fly hundreds of miles ...

In this new Landscape Photography Vlog Gavin aka Fototripper and I head out east. To capture some awesome Star trail ...

Visitors seek out cliffs near the lake to behold stunning combined views of the reservoir below and starry space above ...

A "new star" is shining in the constellation Lupus thanks to an unexpected stellar explosion within the Milky Way — and it can currently be seen with the naked eye from parts of North America ...

Saturn is shining in the south for most of the night, the brightest spark in a region of faint stars. The Moon glides right under the ringed planet on the evening of 14 October.

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.

The roughly 150 Dark Sky Places in the U.S. fall into five International Dark Sky categories: parks, sanctuaries, reserves, communities and urban night sky places.

Underrated hidden gem: The Atacama Desert, Chile Best for couples: Kiruna, Sweden Best for solo travelers: Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, New Zealand If catching a glimpse of ...

Photo shows Above a city landscape the Milky Way appears as a pinkish swathe of stars across the night sky. Most people in the world live under light-polluted skies.