The northern lights lit up the night sky over Fairbanks, Alaska, on Jan. 21, with ribbons of green and pink shimmering above ...

Earthshine is sunlight that bounces off Earth, travels to the Moon, and then reflects back to our eyes. The Moon essentially ...

Anyone who has stepped outside on a cold winter night has likely noticed something striking: the stars seem sharper, brighter and more numerous than they do in summer. This isn’t ...

When we look up at the night sky, we tend to see asteroids as simple, wandering rocks—the leftover debris from […] ...

Case in point, 62 percent of 27,000 travelers surveyed in a 2025 travel predictions report by Booking.com said they plan to travel for stargazing, making it a popular travel trend in 2026, too. In ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for. Solar prominences and their associated ...

Missed the jaw-dropping auroras earlier this week? Another window to catch the northern lights is here, and though geomagnetic conditions are calmer, the show could still stretch farther south than ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

A company called Reflect Orbital wants to illuminate the Earth after sunset with orbital sky mirrors, raising alarm bells.

Stargazing, once a niche hobby for astronomers and science clubs, has gone mainstream and is boosting astrotourism.

Scholars widely agree that astronomy is a gateway science – that it inspires a core human interest in science among people of all ages, from senior citizens to schoolchildren. Helping young people tap ...

Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of ...