Head away from city lights in late July to see the dense core of the Milky Way arcing towards the southwestern horizon against a blissfully dark sky as the waning lunar disk approaches its new moon ...

Now that we’ve marked the summer solstice, it’s the shorter nights of the year for the Northern Hemisphere that usher in a variety of celestial delights for sky-watchers who don’t mind staying up ...

Summer nights will bring everything from planets, full moons, and star-studded constellations to "shooting stars," the Milky Way, and more. Summer is the season for stargazing. Sure, nights can be ...

Students will head back to school next week and a Springfield tradition of making the transition more fun is Summer Sky, the annual festival that gets them and their families there through activities ...

Professional and amateur astronomers post amazing photos of the sky. A colorful, star-filled Milky Way is often shown rising above a landscape, and photos from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal ...

Read full article: Did you see those crazy clouds? Here’s what caused the Florida sky to light up A "Space Jellyfish" from a Falcon 9 rocket launch seen Friday. Read full article: ‘Jellyfish’ in the ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest. Then clouds and rain moved in, making it a little hard to appreciate the longest ...

Shannon Silverman, an Astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode seven she shows us some Summer Deep Sky Objects.

If you want a good look at the night sky, it helps to head out of town and stay up late. That’s the idea behind The Eugene Astronomical Society’s “Dark Sky Parties,” which are held each summer at ...