While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area has fended ...

Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected by the French scientist Georges Rayet and others), and astronomers came to ...

During the day, the sky is so bright from this light that no stars (well, except the sun) can be seen. They’re too faint. At night, after the sun sets and its scattered light diminishes, the sky ...

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

Even though the farthest stars look dimmer and dimmer, there would be a lot more of them, and the whole night sky should look very bright. It seems I’m back where I started, but I’m actually a ...

Dozens of national parks around the country have earned designations as International Dark Sky Parks and Sanctuaries. These distinctions by DarkSky International recognize exceptional or distinguished ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during June 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

Aotearoa New Zealand officially celebrates Matariki for the fourth time, marked by the reappearance in the night sky of the ...

Olbers reasoned that if the universe is static, infinite, and full of stars, then no matter which direction we look, our line of sight would end up hitting the surface and light of a star. If that ...

The next time you are far away from a major city or another source of light pollution, look up at the night sky. A view of the roughly 2,500 stars you can see with the naked eye in a truly dark ...

In Michigan, explorers can visit dark sky parks across the state on a clear, open night to glimpse celestial happenings in the sky. Here's what to know. When is International Dark Sky Week in 2025?

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.